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will make 71b. of butter a week ; a middling 

 one, four pounds and a half, and fhe will give 

 tweive quarts a day. Many pigs kept, but no 

 proportion obferved to the number of cows, 

 which are kept in the houfe at night in winter, 

 but out all day. The calves fuck the cows three 

 months before weaning ; many do not fuck at 

 all, but are weaned in a few days. The ma- 

 nagement of the grazing farmers, is to buy in 

 year olds, at 20s. on an average, keep them 

 till they are four years old, and fell them from 

 4I. to iol. Some of thefe farmers occupy very 

 large farms, even to ioool. or 1 500I . * a \ r, 

 but thefe are rare. Some buy in at three years 

 old, and fell out at four ; fome at four, and fell 

 at five; fome at ycariings, and fell out at 

 three, according to their lands. The common 

 farmers buy in mtfl heifers, in November, 

 and fell them in May, when they buy dry cows, 

 which they fell fat in November, and make on 

 the fattening, 30s. a head, and on the mift 

 heifers, 1 6s. on an average. The little farmers 

 that have lands fit for fheep, keep a few for 

 cloathing their families, very many of them 

 fpinning wool enough, and weaving it for their 

 own cloaths, pettycoats, blankets, &c. alfo 

 fluffs for the women. The girls are feen in 

 fummer in their flriped linens and whites of 

 their own making, and in winter in their 

 woollen fluffs. They clip from a ewe, about 

 31b. on average. 



Goats were fo common that every perfon 

 had them from the cafe of keeping, as they 

 brouze only on bufhes, and 20 were nof reck- 

 oned a J'um. This term fhould be explained, 



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