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IS good, turn them out again in a month or 

 fix weeks ; this is in cafe they calve a:bout 

 Candlemas^ which is the moft ufual time for 

 breeding flock. The fize of their flocks, 

 200 flieep in loo acres of feeding land to a 

 proportionable ftock of other kinds, profit 

 -per fheep, 8j-. ; reckon in winter, that one 

 acre of good turnips will keep 20 fheep, the 

 average fleece from 6 to 7 lb. 



To 100 acres of arable land, they keep 

 four horfes and fix oxen, and drive two 

 horfes and two oxen in a plough ; do an 

 acre a day ; reckon the annual expence of a 

 horfe 4 /. 5 J-. a year, the fummer's joifl 

 of one, i/. loj. ; in winter, il. 15.?. feed 

 their oxen, in winter, with oat and barley 

 ftraw, ^c. The lize of their fwine, 20 to 

 25 fl:one, i 4 lb. to the ftone. 



They break up their flubbles in September 

 and OBober^ give 4 .r. 6 <^. or 5 s. an acre for 

 ploughing. Never chop flraw into chaff, 

 but mix their chaff with the corn for horfes* 

 Hire of a cart, three horfes, and driver, from 

 4 J. to 5^. a day. Average of hay /'fr ton, 

 for feven years, from 25/. to 3 ox. In the 

 hiring and flocking farms, they reckon 400 /<< 

 fufficient for 100/. a year, half grafs, half 

 arable, fome of the particulars as follows : 



Half a year's rent in hand, ^o I. 



Seed for fowing down fpring corn, 

 12/. I o .f . 



To the management of fallow, 13/. 10. u 

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