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The join, through the year, 3/. ioj. Thev 

 are kept in winter in the houle. 



Their fwine they fat up to twenty and 

 thirty llone. 



* he profit on fatting an ox in grafs, of 

 one hundred ftone, they reckon, at a me- 

 dium. 5/. 



Th.ir flocks of fheep rife from thirty to 

 one hundred; the profit on them they rec- 

 kon at ioj. a fheep. In winter they keep 

 them in grafs ; and in very bad weather give 

 them hay; in April they turn them into 

 their young clover : The average of their 

 fleeces is 3$. 



In the tillage of their farms, they reckon 

 that fix horfes are neceffary for the culture 

 of one hundred acres of arable land. They 

 ufe either three horfes in a plough, or two 

 horfes and two oxen ; with the firfl:, they do 

 an acre and half a day, and with the fe- 

 cond, not above half an acre ; but then the 

 laft is the ftrongeft of all their work.- — Their 

 allowance of oats to their teams, is two 

 bufhels per horfe, per week. The annual 

 expence of keeping a horfe, they reckon 8/. 

 They feed their working oxen on ftraw and 

 hay in winter, and work on ftraw alone. 

 The common time for breaking up ftubbles 

 for a fallow, is March, but fome do it in 

 November. The price of ploughing, is 5 s. 

 b d. — The depth four or five inches. The 

 lure of a cart, three horfes and driver, 3/. 6d. 



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