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Wheat or rye fucceeds; of which they have 

 finer crops than common. 



As to manuring, that of paring and burn- 

 ing is one important point ; the expence, 



The paring - gs. td. 



Burning . - 26 



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They never fold their (hecp, nor chop 

 their ftubbles ; but their hay they ftacic 

 at home. Dung they buy at Newca/lk, from 

 is. to zs. for a two-horfe cart load. 



Good grafs will lett for 30.C an acre. 

 They apply it both to dairying and fatting : 

 Three acres will keep two cows through the 

 fummer, and one acre three or four meep. 

 They manure it carefully. The breed of 

 cattle fhort horned, which they prefer. 



The product of a cow they reckon at 5 /. 

 a good one will give five gallons of milk ter 

 day : — ^They keep but few fvvine, and not 

 the more for their cows. The winter food 

 of the latter hay and ftraw ; of trie firft two 

 ton ; keep them in the houfe. Their calves 

 fuck five weeks for fatting, and fix for rear- 

 ing, and afterwards are fed with bean meal 

 and milk. They reckon fix or eight cows 

 the proper number for a dairy -maid to ma- 

 nage. 



Their fwine they fat to twenty-four ftone. 



Their flocks of meep rife from forty to 

 eighty. The profit they reckon at ic.f. a 



head, 



