28s FLORENCE COURT. 



7 i o 

 Scutching, moflly at home, by women, but 



done for three halfpence per lb. 360 lb. the 

 acre - - - - 2 5 



Heckling, thirteen pence a (lone, twenty- 

 two flone - - - 1 3 10 







10 9 10 



Produce : 3601b. or 22 flone, clean dref- 



fed, at 17s. 6d. - - 19 5 o 



Expenfes - - 10 9 10 



8 15 2 



They fpin all the flax they raife into three 

 to five-hank yarn, on an average four. Many 

 fervants are hired for fpinning, at 1 2s. a quarter, 

 who do the bufinefs of the houfe, and fpin a 

 hank a day ; if they do it for pay, it is 3d. a 

 hank. A ftone fpins into 64 hanks ; and when 

 they have done it, it is fold at the markets and 

 fairs : the tow they fpin into two-hank yarn, 

 which is wove into feven-hundred cloth, for 

 home confumption. The weavers earn, on an 

 average, iod.a day. Many cows are kept, and 

 much butter made by every little farmer, which 

 they put into tubs of 1% cwt. and if one has 

 not cows enough to make it, they join, in order 

 to do it. Two cows will rear two calve?, feed 

 the family, and make a tub, which fells for 40s. 

 per cwt. on an average, or 2I. 1 os. the two cows j 

 a cow requires two acres for her fummer food, 

 or if they have it, more, and her winter's hay, 

 1 os. A good cow, if no milk is taken from her, 



will 



