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 account of feeding it late in the fpring, not 

 knowing what to do with their ewes aiid 

 lambs. Clover is feldom hired for the 

 fummer, but the price has been from 25 s^ 

 to 30 J-. 



As to their manuring, what they make 

 at home arifes only from foddering the fold- 

 yard with ftraw, but never with hay, unlef s 

 the farm is fo wet that cattle cannot eat it 

 in the field. They break up by paring and 

 burning. The coft is, 



Paring - - g s. 



Burning - - 3 j. to 7 x. 



Spreading afhes - i j*. 

 Sometimes they lime w^th it, jo bufhels to 

 the acre; and the improvement upon the 

 whole lafts feveral years. 



Good grafs lets for 20 x. an acre; it is 

 chiefly applied to the dairying. They reckon 

 two acres to the keeping a cow through 

 fummer ; and four Iheep to the acrf. The 

 chief of their manure is laid on it. The 

 breed of cattle is the fhort horned kind, 

 which are greatly preferred to the other. 

 Their hogs they fat from 12 to 24 ftone. 



The product of a cow they reckon at 6 /. 

 a good one gives from 12 to 14 quarts at a 

 meal, or three gallons and an half per day : 

 ten keep four hogs : in winter they feed 

 them on hay and turnips, but when dry only 

 on ftraw and turnips : In winter, a cow i* 

 allowed two ftone of hay a day till Chrijimns^ 



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