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The winter joiit 30J. and the fummer the 

 fame. They keep them all winter in the 

 houie. 



Their flocks rife from twenty to five hun^ 



dred, and they calculate the profit of them 



at ; ; a head. Their winter and Jpring 



fed the commons alone; and the weight 



their fleeces on an average not above 3/^. 



The. . kon four ox^.' ind four horfes 



■ic culture of one hundred acres 



• o of each in a plough, 



re a day : They allow each 



■ 1 • I ftiels 01 w^ls a week ; a^d 



.annual expence of keeping, &c. 



1 o I The fummer joift is 3 /. The 



. vood of their draught oxen is hay and 



it. v, but they work them on itraw alone : 



Ti- i ey reckon oxen much the beff. on ftoney 



and on un^evel ground; but en other land 



horfes. The time of breaking up their 



ftubbles for a fallow is at Candlemas, Their 



depth of plowing four inches, and 6 s. the 



hire per acre. That of a cart and horfes 



3 j. 6 d. 



They reckon 400 /. necetTary for the 

 (locking a farm of 100 /. a year. 



Land fells at from thirty to forty years 

 purchafe. Many eftates from fmall rents to 

 100/. or 200/. a ) ear. 



Poor rates is. 6 d. in the pound. The 

 employment fpinning and knitting. Very 

 few drink tea. 



The 



