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Fatting Cattle- 



c. Acres. Craft n . 



Earms. . , _ , ,./ Rent, 



per ■bead. ditu. 



To 50 acres S2 54 74 



50 to-ioo 79 38 5$ 



100^0 200 40 2 J 26 



200 to 300 5§ 31 30 



3 OQ <tO 4GO 36 12 23 



400 to 50Q 35 14 24 



500 to 700 94 3.5 49 



700 to 1000 74 39 39 



Above xqoo 198 115 61 



This table is clearly deciiive ia favour of 

 trie middling farms, large and fmall are 

 alrnofl equally inferior; which will appear 

 the plainer from the following diviiioci : 



Thefe proportions are not, I apprehend, 

 difficult to account for : The farms in the 

 lair, divifion include great numbers that 

 maintain little flock, but vafr. flocks of 

 fheep, from the poverty of the foil: And 

 the fhfr. divifion includes all the little 

 farms that are either occupied by farmers, 

 not rich enough for grazing, or that are 

 applied chiefly to feeding cows. The 



dif- 



