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 ktKnutsford is a pretty brifk manufacture, 

 particularly a filk mill that employs eighty 

 women and children ; the firft earn from 4s. 

 to 5 s. a week, and children from 8d. to 2 s. 

 Alfo a thread manufacture, in which men 

 earn from 6/. to 8j. a week: but few 

 women ; but children earn irom is. to 2 j. 

 Likewife a worfted manufacture ; the 

 drawing it from the wool ; the earnings, 

 Men 12 j-. to 14 s. 

 Women (Ipinners) 2 s. 6 d. to 3 s. 

 Children (ditto) 2 s. 

 I advanced fouthward by Holms Chapel, 

 the foil about that place is chiefly of fand, 

 and clay; letts about 20s. at an average. 

 Farms from 20/. to 300/. a year. Their 

 courfe generally 



1. Fallow And, 1. Fallow 



2. Wheat 2. Barley 



3. Oats 3. Wheat. 



4. Clover. 



Of wheat the average crop is about twenty 

 buihels, of barley thirty, and of oats as much. 



Marie is here the grand manure ; they 

 lay about a rood and half on an acre, which 

 coils from 1 /. iox. to 2 /. and lads from 

 twenty to forty years ; it is of a brown co- 

 lour mixed with blue. They alfo lime their 

 land, generally mix it with dung for wheat; 

 it cofts them \od. the cwt. 



Their grafs land lets from 20 s. to 40 j, 

 per acre, it is all ufed in dairying. Of mea- 

 dow 



