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good bulls, which lbmetimcs fell for ioo/. 

 or 200 /. a bull. 



They fat their oxen to forty and fixty ffone. 



Their fwtne, in common, to twenty fione : 

 One in particular, to thirty. 



They reckon the product of a cow from 

 3/. jos. to 4/. Keep fcarce any fwine the 

 more upon account of their dairies. Feed 

 their cows in winter upon draw and hay ; 

 and reckon an acre of the latter neceffary. 

 The fummer joitt 20 s. to -jo s. Keep them 

 in both held and houfe in the winter. 



Their flocks of (beep fife from twenty to 

 two hundred, calculate the profit at 4J. or 

 5 s. keep them in both winter and fpring 

 on the commons : The mean weight per 

 fleece 3 lb. 



They reckon twelve or thirteen horfes 

 neceifary for the management of an hundred 

 acres of arable land. Uie four in a plough, 

 and do an acre a day. The annual expence 

 of keeping hories ^ /. 10;. each. The fum- 

 mer joift 30 s. to 50 s. and 3 j. 6 d. a week. 

 They break up their ftubbles for a fallow in 

 March ; plow in general fix inches deep. 

 The price per acre 8 s. Know nothing of 

 chopping ftraw for chaff. Hire of a cart, 

 three horfes, and a driver, 4 s. a day. 



In the (locking of farms 500/. is neceffary 

 to (lock a grazing one of 1 50 /. a year ; but 

 200 /. fufficient for the common cnes of 

 100/. a year. 



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