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quarter and a bufhel of beans laft a horfc all 

 winter, fpring fowing inclufive. They 

 reckon the year's keeping and fhoeing 

 amount to about 4 /. 14 i, 6 i/. The joiil in 

 fummer is about i /. 15 /. in winter the fame. 

 The food of their oxen in winter is ftraw, 

 but in tlie fpring when they work, they have 

 hay at morning and night. 



Upon comparing horfes and oxen, they 

 find horfes befl: for quicknefs, but oxen the 

 moft fteady ; the hitter are, however, by 

 much the moft profitable. The proportion 

 of pace, is the horfes ploughing their acre 

 in fix hours, and the oxen in eight. Chop-t 

 ilraw, by way of chaff, is quite unknown 

 in this country. 



They reckon that to take a farm of 1 00 L 

 a year, half arable and half grafs, requires 

 600/.; all arable, 500/. Which fdm they 

 divide thus : 



Rent, - - >C- -^^^ 



12 Horfes, - - 100 



40 Sheep, - - 28 



Harnefs, - ^ 12 



2 Waggons, - 24 



2 Carts, - - 12 



Ploughs and harnefs, - 5 



Sundry fmall articles, - 10 

 Houfekeeping, cloaths, <o r. 6V. 50 

 Seed, - - 80 



Servants and labourers, 8a 



Land 



