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prime bull, and got one, which coll him 36 

 guineas at a year old, and he is indeed a very 

 fine beaft. This is the breed, which from 

 much experience he prefers, as well for milk- 

 ing as for fattening. The Holdernefs he has 

 tried, having a very fine bull, but is deter- 

 mined to have nothing more to do with them: 

 the flefh is black and coarfe ; and though they 

 give more milk than the others, yet it will 

 not make a quantity of butter proportioned. 

 The common cow of the country is as good as 

 any for mere milking. 



All Lord Bective's gates are iron, which 

 coft him 5I. 5s. and as wooden ones come to 

 3I. 3s. he finds them the greateft improvement, 

 laving the expenfe verv foon. In his tillage 

 he purfues the pra&ice of the country, which 

 is, 1. Fallow. 2. Wheat. 3. Oats. 4. Oats, 

 but does not take the laft crop of oats. He 

 limes 160 barrels an acre on his fallow, but 

 the common quantity only 80, by means of 

 which, and better hufbandry, he has 10 bar- 

 rels an acre of wheat, and 20 of oats ; while 

 the common crops are 7 of the one, and 12 of 

 the other. Marie he has found an excellent 

 manure for dry foils. 



The general rent of the neighbourhood 20s. 

 Of the whole county 18 s. 6 d. Land fells at 

 21 years purchafe at rack rent. 



The cottars plant great quantities of pota- 

 toes, giving for rent 4I. 10s. the crop from 70 

 to 100 barrels. This culture has increafed 20 



fold 



