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bufhels, on fallow; the cofl is. 6d. Their 

 hay they flack at home. 



Good grafs land letts at from 20 /. to 25 s'. 

 an acre; they apply it chiefly to the dairy; 

 an acre and half they calculate as a cow's 

 fummer's feed. Their breed of cattle is 

 middling, between the long and fhort 

 horned : Their oxen they fat up from fifty ta 

 one hundred ftone, but generally fixty. 



They value the product of a cow at 4/.- 

 10/. or 5/. feed them in winter on hay and 

 ftraw; of the former of which they eat 

 about an acre and half, and always in a 

 houfe. They keep three or four fwine to 

 Sen cows. Their calves fuck fome three 

 weeks or a month, and fome not at all. 



Their fwine they fat from twenty to thirty 

 flone. 



About Cambo they keep no fheep, upon 5 

 account of the white-thorn hedges in their 

 new inclofures ; but within a mile or two 

 from an hundred to a thoufand ; the profit 

 they reckon at 8 s. per fheep : Keep ther^ 

 both winter and fpring on the commons. 



They calculate that fix horfes and fix 

 oxen are requifite for the culture of a hun- 

 dred acres of arable. They ufe three horfes 

 in a plough, or two horfes and two oxen, 

 and do three roods a day. Their allowance 

 of oats is two bufhels of cats per horfe per 

 week; and reckon the annual expence at 

 6/. 10 j. The time of breaking up their 



ftubbles 



