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<^alves for the butcher fuck a month, but 

 for rearing only lo days. 



Their flocks of fheep rife from 20 to 60 ; 

 the profit they reckon at ioj-. each. They 

 keep them through the winter upon hay 

 and turnips, befides grafs. The fummer 

 joill is 5 J", and the winter the fame. To 

 keep them through April and part of May 

 they reckon worth Gd.z. week. The average 

 fleece four pounds and an half. 



In tillage, they reckon three horfes and 

 two oxen, or five horfes, neceflary for the 

 management of 50 arable acres. They ufe 

 four horfes, and four horfes and two oxen 

 in a plough, which do fcarcely an acre a 

 day. Five fliillings per acre the price of 

 ploughing ; and the common depth of ftir- 

 ring about five inches. 



The annual expence of a horfe, fhoeing 

 included, they calculate at 7/. The fummer 

 joift is 45 J-, and that of winter is, 6cf. a 

 week. The v^^inter food of their oxen is 

 ftraw, on v^^hich they work them, but in 

 fpring the)^ give them fome hay v/ith it. 

 Oxen they reckon much the fieadiell 

 draught, and to plough the land the befl:, 

 but horfes are more liked in general. — 

 The time of breaking up the ftubbles 

 for a fallow various, but never before 

 Chrift7nas, 



They know nothing of cutting ftraw into 

 chaff, 



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