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Lime they alfb ufe both upon clay and 

 fand, but does beft upon the former: They 

 lay on an acre eighty or an hundred loads, at 

 ten pecks each. Another and excellent way 

 of ufing it, is, to plant potatoes upon the 

 fluff thrown out of their ditches, and after- 

 wards mix it up with lime. It colts n. a 

 load thirteen miles off. Their boggy land 

 they pare and burn. They buy dung at 

 Manchefier at from 4*/. to yd. a ton, but 

 agree for it in the lump. They flack their 

 hay at home. 



Good grafs letts at 30 /. an acre -, they ap- 

 ply it both to fatting and dairying ; and 

 reckon that an acre is fufficient to keep a 

 cow through the fummer; but they both 

 dung and marie it. Their breed of horned 

 cattle is the long horns; fat them from 

 thirty to fifty flone. The product of a cow 

 they reckon at 5/. 10 s. and the average 

 quantity of milk five gallons a day. They 

 do not keep above two or three hogs to 

 twenty-fix cows. When dry, the winter 

 food is flraw ; but near and after calving, 

 hay and ground oats ; of the firft about one 

 half, or three quarters of an acre. The 

 calves do not fuck above two or three weeks 

 for the butcher; but, for rearing, all are 

 brought up by hand. A dairy maid ufually 

 takes care of feven or eight cows. The 

 fummer joift is 301. In the winter they 

 are kept in the houfe. 



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