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good management they drink of tfiemfelvas 

 without trouble. 



The jpift of a cow in fummer, i /. 5 j-. 

 in winter, 3 /. They keep them chiefly in 

 the houfe. 



Their flocks of fhcep rife from 50 to 

 500 : The fort fo poor that both wool and 

 lamb do not together pay 5 i". a year. They 

 keep them through winter on the commons, 

 upon the points of the Hng ; but in fharp 

 weather give them fome hay. The wool does 

 npt come to above 10 d. per head. 



In their tillage, they reckon three horfes 

 neceffary for 20 acres of arable land ; ufe 

 two or three in a plough, and do an acre in 

 a day. The annual expence per horfe, 8 /. 

 ^-The price per acre of ploughing, 5 s. 



From two to four rents to flock farms. 



Land fells at 35 years purchafe.-- — - 

 Tythes are compounded; wheat 5 j. fpring 



corn 3 s. and for hay up to 3 s. Poor 



rates from 6 ^. to i j-. 6 d. in the pound. 

 The only employment from manufad:ures 

 the poor receive is a little fpinning of flax. 

 Tea is drank among them, but not fo much 

 as in other parts. 



Their method of breaking up old fwarth 

 is this ; they plough it up in the Ipring, let 

 it lie fo, till the latter end of the year, then 

 fow rye or maOin; after that oats, of which 

 they get fine crops : they then let it lie for 

 grafs, without fowing any feeds. 



The 



