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ftraw and hay; of the latter of which they 

 generally eat about two tons each. The 

 winter joift is 25 j\ and the fummer, 3 ox. 

 They do not let their calves fuck at all, but 

 feed them by hand, from three to five weeks, 

 for the butcher, but half a year for rearing. 

 They keep their cows all winter in the houie. 

 Their flocks of fheep rife from five hun- 

 dred to ten thoufand ; and the profit of them 

 they calculate at 8 s. in the vales, and 3 /. 

 upon the hills. The winter and fpring food 

 are the commons; but they give fome hay 

 in very ftormy weather : The weight of the 

 fleeces from three to feven pounds in the 

 vales, and from two to four on the hills, and 

 from 6 d. to 9 d. price. 



Very large flocks of ewes are milked 

 after the lambs are weaned, from fix to 

 ten weeks : They make the milk into butter 

 and cheefe, the amount of both which may 

 be about 2 s. a head : The butter is all 

 ufed in falving them; the cheefe fells fo 

 high as Af.d. a pound. The hinds wives 

 milk them. This is but a paltry affair. 



In their tillage they reckon twenty horfes 

 and lixteen oxen necefifary for the manage- 

 ment of five hundred acres of arable land ; 

 their draught two horfes and two oxen, 

 which do an acre a day. Their allowance 

 of oats per day is half a peck, and they 

 reckon the annual expence of a horie at 5/. 

 The fummer join: of a horie is 251. The 



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