For potatoes they dig up grafs land, and dibble in the fetts; get fine crops of five or fix hundred bushels per acre; and very good wheat after them. Lime is their principal manure; they lay nine quarters per acre, at 2s. a quarter, befides leading; they mix it with dung, earth, &c. Hollow draining is not uncommon in this country; they dig them from two to four feet deep, generally till they come to a bed of gravel: They fill them up a foot deep with furnace cinders, heath, ling, &c. &c. They are from four to eight inches wide at bottom, and twenty inches, or two feet, at top. an acre. Good grafs land letts from 20 s. to 40s. Moft of it is applied to feeding cows, for fupplying Birmingham with milk. Many farmers manure it. The product of cows in that way amounts from 67. to 10%. a cow; a middling one will give fix or feven gallons a day. The winter food is hay alone, of which they eat in general three hundred weight a week. The calves do not fuck above two weeks. The fummer joist per cow is Is. 6d. a week: In the winter, after calving, they are kept in the house. Sheep are kept only by fariners that have a right of commonage; the profit they calculate at 8s. a head. The average fleece, two pounds and a half to three pounds. In In their tillage they reckon fix horses neceffary for the management of an hundred acres of arable land: They use two or three in a plough, and do an acre a day. The annual expence per horfe they calculate at 57. The fummer joift 2s. a week. They break up their fallows for turneps at Christmas; the depth of stirring in general from three to fix inches. Much straw is here cut into chaff. The hire of a cart, three horses, and driver, 5s. to 5s. 6 d. Many farmers hire farms of tool. a year with 350%. but it was the opinion of several fenfible husbandmen I converfed with, that upwards of 500l. is necessary to do it completely. That fum they divided as follows: Thirty cows, Six horses, £. 210 60 Housekeeping, two men, two maids, two boys, and the farmer and wife, 60 Land fells at thirty years purchase. acre, Wheat, 5s. Oats, 2s. 6d. Pease, 2s. 6d. Poor rates, Is. to Is. 6d. The employment of the women and children fpinning. All drink tea. Leafes are various, both lives and terms. The following sketches of farms will fhew the general œconomy. 86 acres in all 15 COWS I man 2 maids 2 carts 1 plough. 12 COWS I boy 2 carts I plough. Another, LABOUR. In harvest, Is. and board. In winter, 8 d. and ditto. grafs, 2s. Hoeing turneps, 55. Threshing wheat, 4d. per bushel. Digging, 6d. a rood. First man's wages, 71. to 81. Women per day in harvest, 6 d. and beer. IMPLEMENTS. A waggon, 201. A cart, 67. A plough, 215. A harrow, 155. A barley roller, 15s. A fcythe, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. A fpade, 3s. 6d. Shoeing, Is. 6d. PROVISIONS, &c. Wheat bread, 11 lb. for Is. Cheese, 2 d. Milk, d. per pint. Potatoes, 4d. per peck. Candles, 7 d. Soap, 6 d. Labourer's houfe rent, 30s. to 50s. firing, 20s. to 30s. tools, 75. 6 d. Coals, 12s. a ton. Faggots, 16s. 120. BUILDING. Bricks, 11s. per. thousand. Tiles, 125. Oak timber, I s. to 2s. 6d. Carpenter a day, 1s. 8d. Mafon ditto, Is. 8d. Their labourers, 1s. 4d. Having finished fo long an epiftle, you must allow me to conclude, that I am, &c. LET |