l82 ENCLOSING. 



Ill fifteen enclosures, in which Mr. Bltrton lias 

 been Commissioner, there are 10,800 acres of com- 

 mon land ; about half converted to arable, and proper for 

 the five-shift husbandry. One thousand acres for wheat, 

 producing 5000 combs, at 24s. 6oooi. ; 1000 barley, 

 8000 coombs, at 12s. 4800I. ; looo oats, second crop af- 

 ter wheat, 8000 coombs, at los. 4000I. ; 1000 acres tur- 

 nips will feed 500 bullocks or cows, which will pay for 

 the turnips only, 5I. a head, or 2500!. ; and lOOO acres of 

 grass, with the ofFal turnips, will feed 4000 sheep in 

 winter, and fjttened by a part of the new lay grass, to 

 be off by June. The sheep, for the turnips and grass, 

 will pay 3000I. : there remain 5000 acres of pasture, 

 which will support 500 bullocks, bringing them forward 

 for turnips, to 3I. per head, or 1500I. : and there may also 

 be summer-kept 4000 sheep, which, with wool and 

 profit on carcass, will pay 2000I. And, besides all this, 

 200 cows, at 61. or 1200I. 



Wheat - - 6000 



Barley - - 4800 



Oats - - 4000 



Bullocks - - 2500 



Sheep - - 3000 



Bullocks - - 1500 



Sheep - - 2000 



Cows - - 1200 



25,000 



There are 800 acres more unaccounted for : 5000 acres 

 of arable w ill take 200 horses to till it, wanting each four 

 acres arable and pasture ; 400 of this for corn will give 

 10 coombs a horse, for 30 weeks, or 2000 coombs, at 

 eight coombs an acre ; 250 acres for the 2000 coombs : 

 J50 acres remains for hay, which producing 200 tons, 



will, 



