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know nothing of chopping the corn bub- 

 bles. 



Good grafs letts at 30/. an acre; they 

 ufe it both for fatting, dairying, and breed- 

 ing; two acres they reckon neceiTary to 

 fummer a cow ; never manure it. 



They reckon the product of a cow at 5/. 

 and upon a medium fix gallons of milk a 

 day. They ke^p about two or three hogs 

 to ten. The winter food is hay and ltraw, 

 of the firft about an hundred and twenty 

 flone 20 lb. each) is fuflicient; and have it 

 in the houfe all winter. The calves they 

 bring up by hand, one month for the 

 butcher, and two months for rearing. They 

 reckon a dairy-maid can take care of ten 

 cows. The fummer joifl is 20s. 



The flocks of fheep rife from twenty to an 

 hundred; the profit per head 10 x. They 

 keep them all winter and fpring upon grafs. 

 The average weight of the fleeces about 2lb. 



In their tillage they reckon fix horfes ne- 

 ceflary for an hundred acres of arable land ; 

 ufe two or three in a plough, and do an acre 

 a day. The annual expence per horfe 5 /. 

 The fummer joift 40 s. They break up the 

 ftubbles for a fallow in February or March ; 

 the common price per acre of plowing 4 s. 

 to $ r. They ftir fix inches deep. 



They know nothing of cutting ftraw into 

 F. 



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