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crop is generally worth I o /. or 12/. at 

 1 s. 6d. a bufhel. 



For raifing manure, they have no idea of 

 chopping the ftubbles, but (lack their hay 

 at home, confequently make much more 

 than in places where it is ftacked in the 

 fields. They lime a great deal, lay eight 

 or twelve bolls on an acre, at two bufhels 

 each. 



Good grafs letts at 2/. an acre; they ufe 

 it chiefly for cows ; an acre will fummer 

 one, or three fheep. Their breed of cattle 

 is the fhort horned, and will fat up to fixty 

 or eighty flone. 



Their fwine fat from twelve to twenty 

 flone. 



The product of a cow they reckon at 7/. 

 In good grafs ; do not keep above a fow to 

 ten. The winter food, hay, an acre and 

 a half in quantity, and draw -, kept in houfe. 

 Calves do not fuck above three days. 



In the tillage of their lands, they reckon 

 four horfes will do for one hundred acres of 

 arable land ; ufe two in a plow, and do an 

 acre and half a day ; allow them half a 

 peck of oats a day, and reckon the annual 

 expence of keeping, &c. at 8 /. per head. 

 The time of breaking up their ftubbles for 

 a fallow, is after barley fowing. The price 

 pf ploughing, 3 s. per acre, and the depth 

 four inches. The hire of a cart, three 

 Jiorfes, and driver, 5 s. a day, 



They 



