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 and fattening; one acre will feed a cow 

 through the fummer, or keep four ftieep. 



They all manure their grafles. 



The breed of their cattle is between the 

 long and fliort horns. 



Their hogs, they fat up fo high as 30 

 ftone : Three or four years ago, one was 

 killed of 36 ftone. 



The produd per cow, they reckon at 4/. 

 1 2 .f. 6 d. at an average. The medium 

 quantity of milk per day five gallons, and 

 'jlb. of butter per week, in bad pafture ; 

 and to ten cows, two or three hogs kept. 

 The winter food hay alone, of w^hich two 

 acres per cow. They let their calves fuck a 

 very fhort time, and fome not at all. They 

 reckon a dairy-maid can take care of five 

 or fix cows. — The joift in fiimmer is from 

 30J-. to 35^.; in wdnter, they are always 

 kept in the houfe. 



In fatting beafts they reckon one of 50 

 ftone will, for the fummer 's feed, yield 4/, 

 10 J", profit. 



Their flocks of fheep rife from 30 to 

 400 ; and the profit, per fheep, they calcu- 

 late by reckoning the lamb at 5 s. and the 

 wool 3 J. 4 ^. They keep them the whole 

 year round on the commons. The weight of 

 wool per fheep about 4 lb. on an average, 

 and the price 9 ^. or 10 d. per lb. 



In the hiring their farms, they reckon 

 200/. neceffary for ftockin gone of 50 /.a year. 



Poor 



