STATISTICAL SURVEY 



Whilfl the diftilleries were at work at Moira, num- 

 bers of cattle were fattened at them ; and by giving a 

 proper quantity of dry food at intervals, their beef, 

 though not fo firm as on lefs watery food, was f\veet, 

 and tolerably well coloured. In that neighbourhood 

 there are feveral gentlemen, who upon turnips, pota- 

 toes, &c. feed many beafts in winter. The farmer in 

 the park at Hillfborough has a regular plan every year 

 of feeding : his food, turnips, oats, and hay. This 

 year's turnips (1801) are allowed to be the largeft 

 and cleaneft ever feen in this county. He always fows 

 them in drills. At Mount Stewart two bullocks were 

 fold, in the fpring of 1801, for p6/. ; one of them was 

 bred there, the other had been bought in ; they were 

 worked until eight or nine years old ; the two weighed 

 eighteen hundred weight, and were fattened on tur- 

 nips ; the tops given to milch cows. Lord London- 

 derry is entering' very largely into the cultivation of 

 green winter food. This year, potatoes are very much 

 given to cattle : Mr. Moore, at Clogh, has fourteen 

 bullocks, which each contume a bufhel, or four ftone, 

 per day, befides hay ; they are doing remarkably well. 

 The fame gentleman tried thefe bullocks with parfnips : 

 whilft they lafted, every other food was fcorned by 

 them. Lord Anrrefley every year flail-feeds fome bul- 

 locks in one of the beft houfes for the purpofe, that 

 can be conftructed. Colonel Ward has erected, at 

 Bangor, a boiler on Count Rumford's plan, in which 



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