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As the team nf five hbrfes will be brought 

 in at Michaelmas^ -nd kept at work coii- 

 flantlyfor Tome time before the farm will 

 yieki a produce for them, their expcnces 

 muft be calculated : I fhall fuppofc for hay, 

 cats, litter, fhoeing, ^c, 10 1, per horfe, per 

 annum or 50/. 



Guppofe the improvement is begun at 

 Michaelmas^ the walling fliould all be fi- 

 r.ifned by April or May. the team will 

 liave, nothing to do with this work as the 

 carriage of the flones is included in the 

 price per rood : it mufl therefore be em- 

 ployed in bringing lime \ that it may all 

 be en the premifts ready to fpread with 

 the afiies of the burning, 2 chaldron per 

 acre, each of 32 buOiels, is a common 

 quantity, but 1 fiiall fuppofe 3 per acre, 

 which over So acres is 240 chaldron. The 

 pai ing and burning muft always be finifn- 

 cd in April -y it is begun in March^ and the 

 fooner over the better, as there is ccnfe- 

 qucntly the more time for the following 

 tillage. From the fuft of Oclobcr to the 

 middle of March, are 1 40 working days, out 

 or which v/e ought not to dedud above 20 

 days for accidental interruptions from ex- 

 treme bad vvcathe;-, ^.c. there remains 120^ 



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