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That of number of cattle to an hundred 

 acres is fomewhat more reafonable. There 

 is a fmall variation according to the nature 

 of the land ; but not near fo great as there 

 evidently ought to be. This divifion is 

 another proof how much the agriculture of 

 this kingdom wants reforming in refpect 

 of the number of horfes. The average 

 of all foils is above nine, a number enor- 

 moufly great 5 and correfponds with the 

 extravagant draughts fo general in the 

 ploughs. 



In feveral of the richeft. and beft culti- 

 vated parts of EJ/ex, particularly between 

 Braintree and Hocken//, by Satnford and 

 T/jaxted, the farmers do not keep above 

 four or five horfes per hundred acres of 

 arable, which confequently perform all the 

 work of the grafs beiides. Ten to a farm 

 of two hundred arable and one hundred 

 grafs are reckoned a very complete allow- 

 ance ; and yet it is obfervable that the foil 

 is a ftrong clay ; firong enough to yield 

 great crops of beans ; and that many of 

 the farms have much arable on the fides of 

 hills, which makes the work pretty flout ; 

 yet they plow their land very well, and 

 never ufe more than two in a plough, al- 

 though they do not break up their ftubbles 

 till after barley fowing. Through the befl 

 cultivated parts of Suffolk it is the fame ; 



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