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acre on an average. Farms from 50 /. to 

 500 /. a year. A common courle here, 



1. Fallow 4. Peafe 



2. Wheat 5. Wheat 



3. Bailey 6. Barley. 



Very little fallowing ; they run often eight 

 or ten crops to a fallow. The average product, 

 Of wheat, three quarters and a half. 

 Of barley, four. 

 Of oats, five. 



Of peafe, three and a half. 

 Their turneps they hoe once or twice, 

 and reckon the average value at 45/. 



The product: of a cow they calculate 

 at 7 /. 10L 



The flocks of flieep rife to five hundred. 

 They ufe four horfes in a plough, and do 

 an acre, or an acre and half a day. The 

 price 5 j-. and depth about five inches. 



The employment of the poor women and 

 children is a little fpinning, but much lace 

 making, at which the women earn 10 d. or 

 1 j. a day ; girls from 4 d. to 6 d. 



The following particulars of farms in this 

 neighbourhood will mew the general ceco- 

 nomy of it. 



420 acres in all 4 men 



360 arable 3 boys 



Do grafs 1 maid 



£. 400 rent 8 labourers 



1 8 horfes 3 waggons 



2 cows 3 carts 



400 meep 3 plough?. 



