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two horfe cart loads to an acre, but fome 

 farmers lefs, on to lays and flubbles. It 

 Jails a good improvement for twenty years ; 

 coils about 4/. 10s. an acre. Their hay 

 they flack in houfes. 



Good grafs letts for 26s. an acre; is ufed 

 chierly for dairying; one 2cre and a quarter 

 they reckon enough for a cow in fummer, 

 and one acre to four fheep. They marie 

 a good deal, and find it a fine improvement, 

 making the grafs fatten well, and excellent 

 for milk. Their breed of cattle the long 

 horned. They reckon the profit of a cow 

 at 4/. and a middling one to yield fix gallons 

 of milk a day. The winter food draw and 

 hay, of the latter an acre and a quarter : 

 Keep about a pig to two cows ; and reckon* 

 a dairy maid to ten or twelve. The fum- 

 mer join: is 30 s. keep them in winter in the 

 houfe. 



Their fwine they fat to 4/. ioj. or 5/. 

 value. 



Their flocks of fheep rife from twenty to 

 four hundred, having fome commons in the 

 neighbourhood; and reckon the profit at 

 ys. bd. or 8j. a head: Keep them all the 

 year on the commons : Their fleeces weigh, 

 at a medium, 3 lb. 



In tillage they account fix horfes necef- 

 for fifty acres of arable land; ufe fix in 

 a plough, and do an acre a day. The an- 

 nual expence per horfe 4/. 15s. None of 



them 



