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In their tillage they reckon eight horfes 

 neceflary for the management of an hundred 

 acres of arable : They ufe three or four in a 

 plough, and do an acre and quarter, and an 

 acre and a half in a day. The annual ex- 

 pence of a horfe they reckon 7 /. 



They do not break up their ftubbles for 

 a fallow till after barley lowing. The price 

 of plowing per acre is 5 s. and the common 

 depth four inches. They know nothing of 

 cutting ftraw into chaff. 



The hire of a cart, three horfes, and dri- 

 ver, per day, is 5 s+ 



In the hiring and flocking of farms, they 

 reckon 350 /. a fufhcient fum to take one of 

 100/. a year. 



Land fells from thirty to forty-five years 

 purchafe. 



Tythes are both gathered and compound- 

 ed -, if the latter, 



Wheat, from 3 s. to 5 |, 

 Barley, 3 jr. 

 Oats, 2 s. 

 Hay, is. 6 d. 



Poor rates 1 s. 6 d. in the pound. Idle- 

 nefs the chief employment of the women 

 and children : All drink tea, and fly to the 

 parifhes for relief, at the very time that 

 even a woman for warning is not to be 

 had. By many accounts I received of the 

 poor in this neighbourhood, I app/ehend 

 the rates are burthened for the lpreading 

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