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and May-day i two tons and an half of hay. 

 The price of joifting a cow in winter at 

 ftraw is 6 d. or 8 d. a week, and to keep 

 them from May -day to Michaelmas 30 s. for 

 the keeping a fatting beaft 5 s. lefs than 

 for a cow. 



As to fheep, the whole country has no- 

 thing that deferves the name of a flock ; 

 the number kept by the farmers rifing only 

 from ten to thirty, and yet the profit they 

 make on them is by no means trifling ; 

 they reckon 8 /. or 9 /. a fcore, their gain 

 by keeping them a year. The joifting price 

 is 3 d. a week in winter ; but any farmer 

 would readily give 6 d. a week through the 

 month of Aptil\ five fheep give about a 

 flone of wool. 



Rcfpecling the tillage of this neighbour- 

 hood ; they rekon fix horfes neceflary for 

 the culture of 60 acres of arable land ; in 

 ploughing, at ftrong work, they ufe four 

 at length, but afterwards only two a-breaft; 

 and do three rood or an acre a day. Their 

 allowance of corn eonfifts only of half a 

 peck of oats each horfe per day in feed- 

 time : The of joifting from May-day 

 to Michaelmas is 35 s. and they reckon 

 their teams to colt them yearly, upon the 

 whole, (fhocing included) 7 /. 10 /. a horfc. 

 'Fheir o:;en th #inier in common upon 



ftraw, 



