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year till nothing but weeds. The cotters all 

 ibw flax on bits of land, and drefs and fpin it, 

 and it is woven in the country for their own 

 ufe, befides felling fome yarn. The little far- 

 mers keep no Iheep. 



The chief improvements of waftes are the 

 bottoms adjoining to the bogs, which they 

 drain and cover with gravel or earth, that 

 produce good potatoes. 



No other way of laying land to grafs, than 

 fowing red clover, or oftener nothing, and 

 leaving it. 



Meadows for the year let from 3 to 4I. an 

 acre, merely for the hay, upon which they get 

 10 load an acre. Grafs is mofily applied to 

 fattening cows which they buy in in May at 

 4I. and fell in November at 61. one acre of 

 good land will do for them, but if not good 

 one and a half. 



The cows give two to three gallons of milk 

 a day, and yield 40s. produce per year by 

 butter and calf. Feed them in winter with 

 oat-ftraw, and hay. An ox hide, if it weighs 

 100 lb. three pence per lb. if not two-pence 

 halfpenny. A ccw hide two-pence halfpenny 

 if above 60 lb. if lefs two-pence. Dearer than 

 they were. 



The tillage is all done with horfes, ufe four 

 in a plough, and do better than half an acre 

 a day. The price with harrowing 10s. an 



acre. 



