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For potatoes they dig up grafs land, and 

 dibble in the fetts ; get fine crops of five or 

 fix hundred huiheh per acre ; and very good 

 wheat after them. 



Lime is their principal manure • they lay 

 nine quarters per acre, at is. a quarter, 

 beiides leading ; they mix it with dung, 

 earth, &c. 



Hollow draining is not uncommon in this 

 country ; they dig them from two to four 

 feet deep, generally till they come to a bed 

 of gravel : They fill them up a foot deep 

 with furnace cinders, heath, ling, &c. &c* 

 They are from four to eight inches wide at 

 bottom, and twenty inches, or two feet, at 

 top. 



Good grafs land letts from 20 s. to 40.$-, 

 an acre. Moft of it is applied to feeding 

 cows, for fupplying Birmingham with milk. 

 Many farmers manure it. The product of 

 cows in that way amounts from 61. to 10/. 

 a cow -, a middling one will give fix or icven 

 gallons a day. The winter food is hay alone, 

 of which they eat in general three hundred 

 weight a week. The calves do not fuck a- 

 bove two weeks. The fummer joiit per 

 cow is 1 s. 6 d. a week : In the winter, after 

 calving, they are kept in the houfe. 



Sheep are kept only by farmers that have 

 a right of commonage ; the profit they cal- 

 culate at 8j\ a head. The average fleece, 

 two pounds and a half to three pounds. 



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