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to 30 J. They generally, in the former, 

 keep them in the houfe. 



Their hogs fat up to 30 ftone. 



The profit on the fummer fatting a beafl: 

 of 50 ftone, they calculate at 3/. and 

 upwards. 



Their flocks of fheep rife from 20 to 300; 

 the profit they reckon at 5 s. a head. They 

 keep them all winter in the fields, but in 

 fnow on hay. They would give 3 //. a week 

 /i'riheep to have them kept through -^r/Y; 

 no price, confidering their own feed is only 

 young grafs. The medium weight of 

 wool yJS. 



In their tillage they reckon fix horfes and 

 four oxen are neceilliry for the management 

 of 100 acres ox arable land. They ufe in 

 a plough two oxen and two or three horfes, 

 and do an acre in a day, but if bufy, three 

 acres in two days. They allow their horfes 

 no oats in fummer, and only their fcreenings 

 in wiiiter. The annual expence per horfe 

 they calculate at 5 /. los. The fummer joift 

 is 50 s. and the winter 3 /. Their draught 

 oxen they keep in winter onftraw, and work 

 them on it. On dry land they reckon oxen 

 better and more profitable than horfes, but 

 on wet foils they prefer horfes, and in this 

 they are guided by the treading. Their time 

 of breaking up their fiubbles is after ATay- 

 ifay. The price of ploughing 5 .r. per acre. 

 ■ --- T he denth fix inches. 



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