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more kept in the dairy, and of a sort highly improved. 
—See Cattle. 
Sheep, Leicester, and very respectable, 80 breeding 
ewes kept, and crossed with highly improved rams*—*> 
See Sheep. 
Seven horses do the business of the farm, including a 
hackney and breeding mare, Avho had foaled, before 
March 30, 1807, when I was on the premises: the 
horses black and brown but not heavy, about fifteen 
hands and a half high, they are employed at all leisure 
times in drawing muck from Birmingham in a 6-inch 
wheel waggon and six horses, the distance six miles, 
the price 7s. per ton, and several hundred tons drawn 
in a year. This farm, by dint of industry and perse¬ 
verance, has been greatly improved, and is in a state 
for producing good crops, and well supporting a large 
stock. Further particulars will be given under the dif¬ 
ferent heads of this survey. 
3. To these, I may just add a sketch of the occupa¬ 
tion of-Smith, esq. of Erdiston, (pronounced here 
Yerston) in the parish of Lyndridge, and on the Teme. 
He has formerly occupied 1000 acres, or more of his 
own land, including from 1 to 200 acres of orcharding, 
and 50 acres of hop ground; but has lately let off about 
5001. per annum, retaining still several hundred acres, 
with hop ground and extensive orcharding ; has grown 
fruit enough in one season to make 5 or 600 hogsheads 
of fruit liquor, and can this season, 1807* make 2 or 
300 hogsheads; his orchards in great perfection, and 
new ones constantly planting in Succession. Many of 
his orchards are fallowing for wheat this season, and in 
others beans have been grown, both set and broadcast; 
set beans are not always planted in rows in this part of 
the county. 
Mr. 
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