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3/. 10s* or 4/. They likewife ufe a little 

 lime ; find it anfwers beft on cold fpringy 

 land; they lay it on the fallows twenty 

 bufhels per acre ; the price 7 [ d. per bufhel. 

 They know nothing of chopping the fmb- 

 blcs, but flack their hay at home. 



Good grafs letts at 30/. per acre; it is 

 chiefly ufed for dairying : One acre they 

 reckon furncient for the fummer feed of a 

 cow. Seme few farmers marie it. 



breed of cattle is the long horned : 

 The en fat from forty-eight to eighty 

 The product of a cow they reckon, 

 hree hundred weight of /. s. 



cheefe, at 2js. - 4 1 



Butter, - - - o 10 



Calf, - - - o 10 



5 ! 



The average quantity of milk five gallons 

 a day They keep about four hogs to ten 

 cows, which is alio the number they reckon 

 proper for a dairy maid to look after. The 

 winter food is hay and ftraw ; the quantity 

 of the firft is various ; but many farmers 

 give their cows very little hay, fo that the 

 quantity 1 ifes from five hundred weight to 

 a ton. Keep them in a houfe. 



They fat their hogs from fifteen to thirty* 

 five lcore. 



No account could be taken of their flocks 

 of fheep, as they in general only winter them. 



In 



