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a great deal is made of land by after-grafs, and feed- 

 ing through ftubble-land, &c. 



Common working horfes are always dear in 

 fpring, on account of the great hurry of labour, 

 which never fails to prevail at that feafon. A bealt, 

 which, in the fpring feafon, might have coft 6/., 

 probably may be fold, the October following, for 3/. 

 This great variation in the price of horfes arifes from 

 the fcarcity of winter food, as very few of the fmall 

 farmers can afford better food, in winter and fpring, 

 than oat-ftraw, and the tops of young furze, as has 

 been already noticed. 



Common fheep, bought in at May for I5/., fell, the 

 October following, at from 2o/. to 25/.; but this muft 

 be underftood in good low-land foils, and not in moun- 

 tainy pnes ; the fleece is generally worth 3^. Five 

 deep are allowed to a plantation acre. There is more 

 profit on fheep and lambs, than on wethers, when the 

 lambs fucceed, which is not always the cafe ; the lamb 

 and the wool are fuppofed to be cleared, both worth 

 about i2.f. 



SECT. 5. Mode of feeding Cattle. 



THROUGHOUT moil parts of the county, and parti- 

 cularly the bed-improved parts of the baronies of Stra- 

 bane and Omagh, black cattle are houfed during the 



heat 



