8o SHAEN CASTLE. 



the cheefe is good, ii cwt. of cheefe is a 

 good produce per cow, price from 25 to 30s. 

 per cwt. with il. is. for the calf, at 5 or 6 

 weeks old : rear very few. 



The fattening fyftem is to buy in at 3I. to 

 61. in April, May, and June, and fell out 

 with 30s. or 42s. profit, quite to Chriftmas. 

 Flocks of fheep rife to 5 or 600 - 7 the profit 

 lamb at 5s. to 9s. and the ewe's wool 41b. 

 In the winter they are on the walks, unlefs irr 

 froft and fnow, when they get fome hay or 

 turnips. Wool 1 5s. to 17s. a ltone, but with- 

 in 15 years was 10s. 6d. It is bought up by- 

 combers, who keep fpmners in the country 

 to fpin it into yarn, which is fold fo factors 

 for foreign markets. They are much trou- 

 bled with the rot upon the moors, and a wet 

 feafon will rot them even on lime-ftone land. 

 Plough moilly with horfes, uiing 4, often for 

 the fecond time of fallowing 6 : they do I of 

 an acre; 4 bullocks, which gentlemen and 

 good farmers ufe, will do f , price 7s. an acre. 

 For winter corn they throw the lands narrow, 

 and arched up: no (hovelling furrows, but 

 ftrikethem with the plough. Keeping a horfe 

 3I. 3s. a year, and a working bullock 40s. 

 Break their fallows from November to Fe- 

 bruary. Hire of a horfe, boy, and car from 

 is. id. to is. 4d. 



In hiring and Hocking farms 3I. an acre they 

 reckon necelTary. 



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