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j la. and 2d. a week. But in fummer, as 

 foon as the corn is got in, any farmer will 

 give the feed for the benefit of folding 

 them. All are folded here, even fofewas 

 twenty or thirty. The fleeces from one 

 pound and a half to fix pounds. 



In their tillage they reckon eight horfes 

 neceffary for an hundred acres of arable 

 land : Ufe four in a plough, (of a vile enor- 

 mous heavy conftruclion,) with a driver, 

 and do about an acre a day. They break up 

 their flubbles for a fallow foon after Chrift- 

 mas, plow from four to fix inches deep ; the 

 price 5/. per acre. 



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

 ver, 10 j". a day. 



They reckon the annual expence of a 

 horfe at 10/. The fummer join: is 2 s. a 

 week, and that of the winter, in a ftraw 

 yard, is. 6d. Vafr. quantities of both hay 

 and flraw are cut into chaff, the price of 

 cutting id. abufhel, each bufhel (in chaff 

 meafure) two ftrikes ; and a man will earn 

 at it, if a good hand, from 31. to 4/. a day. 



There is much both to commend and 

 difapprove in their fences ; for their hedges 

 are admirable, but they have no ditches, by-, 

 which means the hedge fuffers greatly, and 

 turns out an indifferent fence. Their me- 

 thod of making them is that of plaining ; 

 when they cut the old hedge they leave 

 abundance of wood ffanding, and fome of it 

 B b 2 very 



