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two quarters. Beans tliey give but one 

 ftirring for, fow four bufhels broad-caft, 

 never hoe them ; the crop three quarters 

 and an half; ufe them for hogs and horfes. 

 They ftir once for peafe, fow three 

 bufhels, and gain in return about three 

 quarters. They have very few turnips, but 

 plough five times for them ; hoe them once, 

 and value an acre of good ones at 3 /. 

 They ufe them only for fheep. Clover 

 they fow with oats, mow it for hav twice, 

 and get three loads an acre ; and after it, 

 fow barley. 



Their manuring confifls of their farm- 

 yard-dung, which they carry out and lay 

 in heaps, but do not ftir it over, or mix it 

 with any thing ; and folding their llieep, 

 which they do on the pea-land for w^heat. 



Good grafs lets at 20/. an acre: They 

 have very good dairies. They reckon that 

 an acre will not maintain a cow. The 

 produ<lt/>tr head they value at 5 /. A good 

 one gives in the bell feafon two gallons of 

 milk per day. Their winter food is ftraw, 

 when dry ; and at other times clover hay : 

 The calves they let fuck only two or three 

 days. The joill of a cow through fummcr 

 is 32 J. 6^. : 



Their flocks of flicep are from 300 to 

 500; the folding they reckon the chief- 

 profit of them, which they carry on from 

 Afay to Martwmas. They keep, them all 



winter 



