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me the Intelligence called in two or three 

 others to vouch for the truth of it. They 

 keep about two pigs to five or fix cows. 

 The winter food is hay and ftraw, of the 

 former about half an acre. The calves 

 never fuck at all, but are brought up by 

 hand; for the butcher three weeks, and for 

 rearing three months. 



Their flocks of fheep rife from forty with- 

 out right of commonage, to four thoufand 

 with ; and they reckon the profit at 7 s. a- 

 head ; their common winter food is on the 

 moors, but in deep fnows they give them 

 hay. Their fleeces run from 3 to 6 lb. 



In their tillage they calculate four horfes 

 and four oxen neceffary for the culture of 

 an hundred acres of arable land. Thev ufe 

 two horfes and two oxen in a plough, fome- , 

 times only two horfes, and do from half to 

 three quarters of an acre a-day. They allow 

 their horfes three gallons of oats per week ; 

 and reckon the annual expence per horfe 

 at 6/. Their draught oxen they feed on 

 ftraw and hay in the winter. Horfes they 

 expect will do more than oxen, but the latter 

 are much the cheapen 1 :. 



They break up their flubbles for a fallow 

 in May. The price of plowing is 3/. bd. 

 an acre, and the depth five inches. The hire 

 of a cart for carrying coals is 5 s. a day, for 

 working in the roads 3/. 



In 



