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Bones are a very odd manure, but they 

 find them of great benefit to their clay 

 lands, and will laft twenty years good. 



Very good grals will lett for 20s. an 

 acre ; I mean r cery good in companion with 

 the reft. It is chiefly applied to feeding 

 cows for dairying, but more for fuckling. 

 An acre and half they reckon fumcient for 

 the dimmer feed of a cow. In winter they 

 feed them on hay, ftraw, and turneps. 

 Thofe in milk all on hay, and calculate 

 that they eat on an average two loads. The 

 ioift in a ftraw yard is yd. a week, and in 

 iummer, 1 s. The annual product, whether 

 in dairying or fuckling, they calculate at 

 from 4/. to 8/. The quantity of milk two 

 or three gallons a day. Much more fuck- 

 ling than dairying. 



The breed moft common is the Welch. 

 The calves fuck eight, nine, or ten weeks. 

 To ten cows in a dairy they keep about 

 three fows, but fell off the pigs young. 

 Bight or nine cows the common number for 

 a dairy maid to look after. 



Their hogs fat up to thirty ftone (eight 

 pounds,) 



The flocks of fheep are extremely va- 

 rious, from twenty to three hundred; the 

 profit is differently calculated ; I have heard 

 it laid from js. to 12J. and fome to 15 J". 

 a head. The winter and lpring food is 

 Is, hay, and turneps; the winter joift 



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