RABBIT. 



couple killed; that killing, carrying, &c. might amount 

 to fomething more tlian is. an acre: the fort fdver 



fP' 



vhich will not do well in other counties, where they 



have been tried. He has now looo acres of warren ; and 

 upon looo acres the ilock is 2600 couple, and kill jooo 

 couple annually. New land is the moil produdive. On 

 fuch a warren, the rabbits mult have two loads of hay a day 

 in a ftorm, or two or three large waggon loads a day of 

 turnips. The warrener has 20/. a-year, and two cows ; 

 the killers '6s. or C)s. a-week, and board for ten weeks. 

 Silver (Icins now are lOs. a dozen ; have been 14^. to 15J. 

 Fences 60 a-year ; no crofs ones ; no buildings. The im- 

 menfe occupation of Mr. Grant and his fons, being much 

 the mod conlidcrable in the county, with the circumllance 

 of making an ample fortune, made him defirous of feeing 

 him. It is added, that 20 years ago, Driby had a warren 

 of 12 or 1300 acres ; and the rent of the farm including it, 

 300/. a-year, which rent has been doubled by ploughing. 

 And Mr. Kenliaw obferved, that the community received 

 next to nothing from warrens ; which is probably the cafe, 

 as has been feen above, where the land is capable of being 

 managed under the plough, or the fyllem of grafs. 



And the calculation of Mr. Parkinfon, of a warren of 

 700 acres under rabbits, in the fame diftrift, (lands thus : 

 rent 5^. ; Handing ftock 2000 couple of filver hair, valued 

 to the incoming tenant at 2/. 6d. a couple ten years ago, 

 and demanding a capital of 1400/.; and carefully i^i/ic^/ to 



catch all extra bucks, fo as to leave only one-fourth ot thf 



total number of bucks. 



€ s. d. 



Produce 3000 couples for fale, worth, enl 



an average of (even years pad, 15/. a > 450 o o 

 hundred - - - - - -J 



But as fome are greys, the price 10/. - 300 o o 



750 o o 



375: 



Take the average of the two, that is, filver' 



liair of the Wolds, and greys of Lincoln 



Heath, it will be on a medium 

 Or about los. lod. an acre. And add to thefo, 350 Iheep, 

 kept by a courfe of tillage ; that is, ploughing up 50 acres 

 annually for paring and burning for turnips ; then fpring 

 corn and feeds, which feeds (lieep-fed one year, and thrown 

 open to the rabbits : the (heep at zJ. per week for 25 weeks, 

 will amount to 72/. \0s. This is inferior to the common 

 produce of (heep ; but the rabbits will demand hay, &c. to 

 the amount of the difference ; and alfo a team of horfes mull 

 be kept for the cultivation of 1 00 acres of land, and carrying 

 the rabbits to market. Hence, 



The 50 acres of corn will be confumed by 

 the horfes, and mailer's and warrener's 

 cows, &c. .... 



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447 



Expences and Profits of a Rabbit Warren Farm. 



It is ftated by the writer of the above agricultural 

 furvey, that the warren of North Ormfby, occupied by the 

 late Mr. Anfell, is fuppofed to be one of the belt managed 

 in the county. The rabbits chiefly confifl: of filver-greys ; 

 the land of the yearly value from 2s. 6d. to Ss., and fome 

 little of it los. the ftatute acre. The occupier was of 

 opinion, that lately his warren lands would liave paid him 



better, had they been applied to the purpofe of growing 

 corn, and grafs feeds for keeping fheep. The rabbit pro- 

 duce he fuppofed to be from Ss. to los. ; in fome parti- 

 cular years they have paid from Ijj. to 21s. an acre; but 

 to obtain any extraordinary profit, very great care muft, he 

 thinks, be taken in kilhng the many difTcrent kinds of 

 vermin which depredate, and, without the utmoll vigilance, 



will 



