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Good grafs letts from 30 s. to 40 s. it is 

 nfed both for fatting and dairying : One 

 acre will carry a cow through the fummer, 

 or eight fheep. The breed of cattle is be- 

 tween the long and mcrt horns -, their oxen 

 fat to about fixty fcore. The product of a 

 cow they calculate at 5/. five gallons of 

 milk about the average quantity per cow. 

 To ten cows they keep about two lows ; and 

 eight the proper number for a dairy maid. 

 The winter food is ftraw and hay, of the 

 latter from fifteen hundred weight to a ton 

 each. The calves fuck fix weeks. The 

 fummer join 1 s. 6 d. a. week. In winter 

 they are kept in open farms in the farm 

 yard, but in inclofed ones, in the fields. 



Their hogs they fat fo very high as to 

 forty fcore, but twenty common. 



The flocks of fheep rile from iixty to 

 twelve hundred, the profit they reckon at 8j. 

 or gs. a head. The average fleece, in the 

 inclofures 9 lb. in the open fields 3 or 4/^. 



In their tillage they reckon twelve horfes 

 necellary for an hundred acres of arable 

 land; ufe five or fix at length, and do an 

 acre a day. The annual expence of a horfe 

 they calculate at 7 /. The fummer joill 

 is. 6d. a week. They break up their 

 ftubbles for a fallow in March. The price 

 of plowing per acre is 6 s. and the depth 

 two and a half or three inches; it is allo- 

 niuhing they can get fuch ncble crops with 



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