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the dices on it; twenty bufhels plant an acre 

 in rows, one foot afunder every way : They 

 hoe them twice, and reckon the crop in 

 general from two hundred to two hundred 

 and forty bufhels. They fow wheat or bar- 

 ley after them ; but the land is in excellent 

 order for any thing. 



Lime is their principal manure ; they lay 

 about a hundred bufhels per acre upon every 

 fallow, which coft about 20 s. They have 

 fome little paring and burning. No folding 

 of flieep. They flack their hay both in the 

 field and at home. No chopping of ftub- 

 bles. 



Good grafs letts at 2ol They ufe it 

 both for fatting and milking, and reckon 

 that an acre will carry a cow through fum- 

 mer, or five fheep ; but they are tolerably 

 careful in manuring it. 



Their breed of cattle is between the long 

 and fhort horns; the oxen fat to fifty ftone ; 

 and they reckon the product of a cow at 4 /. 

 they reckon that each makes three firkins 

 of butter, and gives four gallons of milk a 

 day; but nine gallons have been known, 

 They keep very few fwine to their cows, 

 fome none at all, others two, three, or four, 

 to twelve cows. Their winter food, hay and 

 flraw, of the firi! of which they generally 

 eat a ton. The calves do not flick at all to 

 rear, but for the butcher, a month or five 

 weeks. A dairy maid can take care often. 

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