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Mr. Smith’s 12 dairy cows and bull are Hereford^ 
but he has Shropshire long horns as well as Herefords 
for fatting : he grazes and sometimes stall feeds oxen of 
both these breeds. Further particulars of this occupa¬ 
tion will be found under the different heads of this 
survey. 
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2. RENTS. 
Rents are universally paid in money* though slight 
personal services are sometimes required, as team work, 
keeping a game dog for the landlord, &c. The rent of 
farms is generally as follows : —Common field farms with 
enclosures near the homested, 20s. per acre; enclosed 
farms of inferior land about the same, but those of bet¬ 
ter land rise to 30s. per acre; and some few instances of 
whole farms let to 40s. and even 50s. per acre all round, 
but these are of superior staple, and contain a good 
proportion of pasture or meadow land ; and near com¬ 
mercial places or populous towns rents are still much 
higher, the meadows on Severn, near Stourport, are 
sometimes let from 4l. to 5l. per acre, and water mea¬ 
dows in the neighbourhood of Bromsgrove, and in 
other parts of the county at the same rate. 
In 1776, Dr. Nash estimated the rental of common 
field and arable land at from 1 Os. to 20s. per acre, of 
pasture land at 20s. per acre, and of water meadow at 
30s. per acre, and the rental of the whole county at 
about 300,0001. per annum. I suspect that in this esti¬ 
mate the annual value of parks, pleasure grounds, 
plantations, woodlands, and similar premises occupied 
by the owner is not included, and suppose the rental 
of 
