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 lay the dices in every other furrow, one foot 

 aflmder, and plow between them once while 

 growing, befides hand-weeding. They plow 

 them up, and get two, three, and four hun- 

 dred bumels per acre. 



Their other way is the lazy-bed method ; 

 they lay the dung on the green fward, the 

 ilices on that, then they dig trenches, and 

 with the earth cover the fetts, but they 

 reckon plowing a better way. 



Good grafs land letts at 30 j. an acre ; 

 ufe it moftly for dairying; an acre and a half 

 they reckon fufficient for a cow, and an acre 

 for four fheep. Manuring it is common. 

 Their breed of cattle is the long horned, and 

 they reckon them beft: Fat their oxen to fifty 

 ltone ; their fwine to twenty-four, or thirty. 



The product of a cow they reckon at 

 3/. 1 3 j. 6d. and fix gallons per dav a com- 

 mon quantity of milk per cow : Do not keep 

 above one hog to ten. The winter food; 

 flraw and hay ; of the latter they eat about 

 two ton. The fummer joift is 35/. In 

 winter they are kept in the houfe. Their 

 calves fuck about two months. 



Their flocks rife from an hundred to a 

 thoufand; the profit they reckon at 4/. 3*/. 

 a head; that is, lamb 3J. and wool is. 3*/. 

 fometimes $s. They keep them, in both 

 winter and fpring, on the commons. The 

 average weight of the fleeces, 4 lb a 



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