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feet. I was fortunate in visiting the cow-house just as the animals 

 were brought in to be milked to supply the royal household ; and I 

 did not know which to admire most, the beauty of the cows (some 

 sixty in number), or the scrupulous cleanliness of the well-con- 

 structed and airy apartment in which they were placed, which 

 might indeed, form a model to the agriculturists of the present day 

 of what a cow-house ought to be. 



I had also an opportunity of seeing there some very fine pigs, 

 that were shortly to be exhibited at an approaching cattle show. 

 I was conducted through the farm-offices by the resident superin- 

 tendent, who very kindly drew my attention to the diflerent objects 

 of interest, and gave me much information relative to the working 

 of this farm, &c. 



In conclusion, I beg to state that the foregoing notes must 

 necessarily contain but a very limited portion of the information I 

 have derived from my tour on the Continent ; I hope, however, at 

 some of my lectures delivered in the Royal Dublin Society, to have 

 the opportunity of communicating to the public fuller details of 

 different matters I have here merely noticed, as well as to give 

 other information connected with the agriculture of the Continent, 

 the insertion of which in these notes would make them much too 

 extended. 



