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keep one to two cows. Their calves do not 

 luck at all, but are brought up by hand ; 

 three mouths for rearing, and fix weeks for 

 the butcher. A dairy maid will take care 

 of twelve cows. The fummer joift is 35 j, 

 and the winter's the fame. 



The profit of fatting an ox of feventy ftone 

 they reckon 50 s. 



Swine they fat from ten to twenty-four 

 ftone. 



Their flocks of fheep rife from three hun- 

 dred to two thoufand, and reckon the profit 

 of all forts, one with another, at 5 s. per fheep 

 per annum. They keep them in winter and 

 fpring upon their fheep walks and turneps ; 

 of the latter they keep fome to the end of 

 April. The average weight of fleeces 7 lb. 

 and value 7 d. per lb. 



Tbeyconftantly falve all fheep in October, 

 with tar and butter; two gallons of tar and 

 a firkin of butter, melted together, will do 

 one hundred and twenty. They reckon this 

 method keeps them free from the fcab, 

 warm in the bad weather, and alfo makes 

 the wool grow. 



In their tillage they reckon twenty horfes 

 and as many oxen neceffary for the manage- 

 ment of five hundred acres of arable land ; 

 they ufe in a plough two horfes and two 

 oxen, but in fome lands only two horfes, 

 which do an acre a day in fummer, but only 

 three roods in winter : They allow their 



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