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G0ocl grafs lets from 12 s. to 20 s. per 

 acre: Tliey ufc it both for dairying and 

 fatting : three acres will fummer two cows ; 

 and one acre keep four or five fheep. The 

 little dung they raifc is all laid on it ; a 

 contract in their leafes of no long date. 



Their breed of cattle is the fhort horned. 

 The annual produ6l of cows is 5 /. and the 

 average quantity of milk four gallons a day 

 the fummer through. To ten cows they 

 keep upon a medium three fat hogs, and 

 fix lean ones. The winter-food, when dry, 

 oat ftraw, and fometimes turnips or hay ; 

 when in milk always hay, or hay and tur- 

 nips, of the firft about two tons in a winter. 

 Calves, for rearing, fuck 14 days; for 

 killing, a month. A dairy maid will take 



care of ten. The fummer joiil of a cow 



is 34 J-. in winter they keep them in the 

 fields till calving: 



In the fatting of cattle, they reckon if 

 an ox of 80 ftone is bought in at 11 /. in 

 fprlng, he will in a general way fell at 16 /. 

 out of the after-grafs. And that the profit 

 of iummer-fatting beafts of 50 ftone is 45/, 

 each, without giving them any after-grafs. 



Their worft grafs they apply to breeding, 

 as it would not anfwer upon their beft lb 

 well as either fatting or milking. 



Their flocks of fheep rife from 20 to 200, 

 and reckon the profit in three ways, as 



follows : 



If 



