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foils, which are fometimes fo light as to be fown without 
ploughing. Sometimes, towards the end of the rainy feafon, 
they turn the ground and let it lie fallow till the next feed-time ; 
but they rarely give themfelves the trouble of manuring, ex- 
cept for barley. 
For returns of corn in general they reckon upon fifteen fold j 
in choice places from twenty to thirty, and even much greater 
where they have the command of water. The grain is not 
thraflied, but trodden out In circular floors by cattle. The chaff 
and fhort ftraw of barley is preferved as fodder for their horfes, 
and for fale j the reft of the ftraw is fcattered about by the 
winds. They do not even give themfelves the trouble of 
throwing it into the folds where their cattle are pent up by 
night, which would be the means of procuring them a very con- 
fiderable fupply of manure, and, at the fame time, be of fervice 
to their cattle in cold winter nights. 
The following rough ftatement will ferve to fhew the circum- 
ftances of an ordinary corn-boor of the Cape. 
Outgoings, 
The price of the opftal or buildings 
on his loan farm - R.D.- 7000 
5'o -Oxeil a 15 Rd« - 75° - 
50 Cows a 8 Rdr • • 400 
il. Horfes a 40 — - 480 
Carried over 8630 
