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neceflaryfor loo acres of ploughed ground, 

 if the foil be clay ; hut if gravel, four of 

 each will do. In the firft they ufe two 

 oxen and two horfes in a plough, in the 

 laft three horfes ; and the common quan- 

 tity they do in a day Is about three 

 fourths of an acre. — To their horfes they 

 generally give two pecks of oats each per 

 week the year round. The fummer joift is 

 40 s. and they reckon each horfe, in all 

 expences, cofts about 4/. 10 s. or 5/. a year. 



Their working oxen they feed on flraw 

 In winter, and work them on it. They 

 reckon them better and more profitable than 

 horfes. 



The time of breaking up the bubbles for 

 a fallow is after barley-fowing : The price 

 of ploughing is 4 J", an acre, and the depth 

 fix inches. 



The hire of a cart, three horfes and a 

 driver, is 5 j. a day. 



In the hiring and flocking of farms they 

 reckon 400/. necelfary, for one of 100/. 

 a year. 



Land fells at 35 years purchafe. There are 

 fome freeholds of 100/. a year, &c, 



Tythe is generally compounded, v/heat 

 pays 6 s. an acre, barley 4 j-. 6 /c/. and hay 2 s. 



Poor rates 6^. in the pound. The em- 

 ployment of the poor women and children 

 is fpinning worfted ; at w^hich a woman 

 f apis about 5 ^, a day. Moil drink tea. 



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