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manure can be got from Cork, where there is also a 

 market for all kinds of produce. 



The old castle of Blarney, with its " blarney stone/' 

 and famous " groves," stands in the middle of this exten- 

 sive occupation. The water-meadows are in the valley 

 below the castle. The land surrounding it is old pas- 

 ture of fine quality, resting on limestone, a mass of 

 which is here most usefully protruded through the 

 surface. 



So near Cork, I was surprised to find that Mr 

 Jeffryes did not set a watch on each of his turnip 

 fields, like everybody else in this country. He takes a 

 different plan, having offered a reward of a guinea to 

 any person who prosecutes to conviction any one who 

 is found thieving his turnips. The first year this plan 

 cost about fifteen guineas, but it gradually fell off, and 

 now he has never a complaint of loss. 



Mr Jeffryes has spent many years of his life in 

 bringing these farms into their present high state of 

 cultivation, and especially in perfecting the arrange- 

 ments of his dairy and feeding stock. He might be 

 disposed to subdivide, and let them in suitable-sized 

 occupations, to skilful and enterprising tenants. 



In cleaning grain for the market, in this country, it 

 is not considered necessary to prepare it so carefully 

 as we do in Scotland. Light grain and seeds of weeds, 

 which would be blown or sifted out with us, are here not 

 found injurious to its sale. This may in some degree 

 account for the apparently low price of Irish grain, 

 when it comes to the English market. 



It is difficult for a stranger, going through the 



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