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But the profit of fuch thorough tillage is, 

 perhaps, as confiderable as this ballance. 

 They fow barley afterwards, of which they 

 get very great crops. 



As to the management of manure, it may 

 partly be judged from their flacking their 

 hay both in the field and farm yard; and 

 from their never chopping their ftubbles. 



Paring and burning was once ufed, but it 

 is now done with. 



They lime much, lay feventy bumels per 

 acre, befides a dunging at the fame time -, it 

 coirs 7 s. befides the leading ; they reckon 

 they could not raife corn without it. 



Very good grafs land will lett at 20s. an 

 acre : They apply it moftly to fatting. An 

 acre and an half they reckon fufficient for 

 carrying a beaft,of an hundred ftone, through 

 the fummer, or to maintain {even or eis:ht 

 fheep. — Their breed of cattle is the fhort 

 horned, which they reckon much the beft. 



The product of a cow they lay at 5 /. but 

 on land of 20 s. an acre, they fuppofe it may 

 amount to 9 or 10 /. A good one will give 

 nine gallons of milk per day. Ten will 

 maintain five or fix fwine. Their winter 

 food is hay and ftraw. The calves do not 

 fuck at all, being brought up by hand, about 

 fix weeks, for either killing or rearing. A 

 dairy maid, they reckon, can take care of fix 

 cows; and a ton and a half of hay is the 

 quantity they allow for wintering one cow. 



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