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fpeaking of. I charge the fame number of 

 horfes with the rent of a clofe, for which I 

 pay £.28 7 o 



Tythe 170 



Expences of harvefting at 5 & 



per acre 250 



£>3 l 19 P 



If the eddifh pays the aiTeflments of dif- 

 ferent kinds, it is as much as can be expected. 

 I then bought not lefs than forty pounds 

 worth of hay, exclufive of the expences enu- 

 merated. The weekly allowances of corn were 

 two quarters of oats and nine bufhels of beans. 

 Next winter when I ufed chopped ftraw, I 

 (tinted them to a ihorter allowance of fix 

 bufhels of beans, and dropped the ufe of oats. 

 For fix fuccefive weeks I gave them potatoes: 

 but, having found one horfe dead in the (table, 

 and in a few days another very ill, I dropped 

 the ufe of that kind of food : though I am (till 

 in doubt whether the potatoes were the caufe 

 •of his death. As horfes are remarkably fond 

 of the root, my man might perhaps give them 

 too great a quantity. 



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