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 They keep about a pig to every cow. Theif 

 winter food is hay alone, of which they eat 

 as much as grows on four acres. The calves 

 for rearing, fuck lo days, for the butcher 

 a month. A dairy maid they reckon can- 

 manage feven cows ; 3 /. is the joift in 

 winter, and i /. is. in fummer. They winter 

 them in the field. 



Their fwine fat to 20 ftone. 



They keep but fewfheep ; in general about 

 20 or 30 ; reckon the profit at 1 5 -f. a head. The 

 ioift on turnips 3 ^. a week: in y^p't/ worth 

 6d. The average fleece is 4/-^. and an half. 



In their tillage, they reckon four horfes 

 neceflary for 50 acres of arable land, ufe 

 three in a plough, which do an acre a day. 

 The fiimmer joift of a horfe is 30J. ; and 

 the annual expence they calculate at 5 /. 

 The price of ploughing is 4 s, an acre; they 

 go four inches deep. The time of breaking 

 up ftubblcs for a fallow is after barley 

 fowing. 



They know nothing of chopping ftraw 

 into chaff. 



The hire of a cart, three horfes, and 

 driver, is 5 /. a day. 



In the hiring of farms they reckon 300/. 

 neceflary for one of 100/. a year. 



Land fells from 35 to 40 years purchafe. 

 There are fcarce any little eftates of i, 2, 3 

 or 400/. r. year. 



Tythes are taken in kind. 



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