GRAZING. 



Grazing ^cctunt of ten Acta of the firft Quality. 



£.0 17 



3 I 



" Rent 



Tithe, 3i. 



Town charges. 



Poor and conftable, &c. 



Church 



Highways 



Produce. 



Improvement of 2 iheep, 4 fleeces, 3 to a tod, 



I' tod - - - - - I 6 



Difference in price 10s. - - -10 



Or total interefl 1 1/. Jj. Cd. per cent. 



In the hundred of Skirbeck, the pafture confifts of three 

 forts in point of rent, &c. the higheft at about ^^s. being 

 from 32J. to 5CJ-. The fecond from 26s. to 32X. averatfe 

 28.;. The third, average i/. is. Befides this a fmall 

 quantity of open meadow, called in^s, average about 

 i8j. The bi-il kind of pallure is chiefly ftocked with 

 (hearling wethers, bought at the fpring market at Bofton, 

 which, having yielded two fleeces of wool, are fold off eafily 

 in the next year ; and by hearts in the fummer, fold in 

 autumn ; fome kept on farther in eddifh, but all gone in the 

 tsinter. The fecond bed is chiefly fed by young beads and 

 hogs, kept on to fliearlings : thefe are well kept, as their 

 value materially depends on it ; there a.e alfo fome few 

 breeding fiieep on this divifion of the partiire. The third 

 clafs is chiefly mown. But it is to be noted that all thefe 

 partlcrJars relate to an acre larger than ftatute meafure, 

 aljout 4 J roods." 



" The firil div'Jion is ftocked at the rate of three (heep 

 per acre, winter and tummer, with the overplus of fome 

 bought in the fpriiig, and not cleared from the land till 

 fome months later than the time at which thev are bought. 

 The beafts are in proportion, on an average of feven to ten 

 acres, from 54 to 100 ftone. The fecond clafs winters 

 about five (hcep to two acres, with not lefs than four per 

 acre in fummer, with a few cows and young beafts ; and on 

 both thefe there will be fome few horfes, too uncertain to 

 average. On the beft land, they are chiefly liorfes making 

 up for fale ; and, on the fecond quahty, horfes employed 

 ,'in worU, or young ones ; it is not ufual to keep any horfes 

 in fummer except on the paftures. The produce of hay 

 on the third may be about 35/. an acre; the eddifti eateu 

 by cattle from the other grounds ; or by lambs or Logs, 

 before thev go to their winter keeping. 



Expmcei. 



£. I. d. 



22 10 o 



1 (O o 



In the pound 033 



Dyke-reeve, 5^. 

 Shepherding. 2/. dd. an acre 

 Fences, is. 



Iiitereft of capital 

 Seven oxen, at 14/. 

 Thirty ftiecp, 45/. 

 Enters at Lady-dav, but a 



year's charges 

 Surplus neceffary, becaufe of 



rtitep unfold at time of 



purtJiafe 



Intereft at 5/. 



Loffes on dock very little in- 

 deed, i/. per cent, will pro- 

 bably cover it 



Cutting thiftles, bobbing equal 

 to it, ftuck as above 



Incidents 

 Profit 



Produce. 



Seven beafts, at 2/ 10/. 

 Thirty Iheep, at 54;. 

 Sixty fleeces, at %s. 

 A horle, twelve weeks 



3 '2 9 



27 12 9 



042 

 I s o 



o 10 o 



29 1 1 II 



98 o o 

 67 10 o 



27 o o 



1800 



210 10 O 



10 10 s 



220 



165 10 c 

 2C7 13 II 



500 



212 13 II 

 15 16 I 



22S 10 o 



121 10 O 



i)I o o 



24 o o 



200 



11% 10 o 



Per acre i/. i u 6</. profit. 

 Produce 6/. ds. od. per acre." 



The writer hints that the profit upon this firll clafs of 

 land is greater than upon tlie reft ; aad that the tliird fort 

 yields very little profit by^graziiig, and would pav much 

 better in tillage. There are many graziers there, wjio have 

 no other land than what is upon thefe flats, and fome who 

 are fiippofcd to have n.adc by their bufir.cfs enough to have 

 3 realized 



