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cgws or fat cattle. Has tried many breeds of 

 cattle, and finds that the long-horned Englifli 

 cow is the beft for fattening. The Holdernefs 

 for giving much thin poor milk, but are too 

 heavy for winter feeding. The Kerry cow is 

 much the beft for milking in quantity of good 

 milk. Hogs he has alfo tried of all forts, and 

 finds that nothing is fo profitable as the black 

 Indian breed with Ihort legs, round carcafes, 

 and fnub nofes. For working, he finds the 

 fmall mongrel Kerry beaft works the beft, and 

 moves the fafteft. He works them all by the 

 horns, in the manner pra6tifed in the fouth of 

 France, four in a plough at the firft plough- 

 ing. He changed the manner in which Lord 

 Shannon brought it over, from the yoke which 

 couples them , to going fingle with double traces ; 

 this he finds much the moft beneficial manner; 

 they move quicker and with greater power, 

 from being free and working not in couples j 

 befides being applicable to all forts of work 

 which requires their going fingle. Englifh 

 waggons LordDoneraile has tried and laid afide, 

 from finding, on experience, that they are very 

 much inferior to the common Irifh car in hay 

 harveft, dung, lime, &c. but he ufes one-horfe 

 carts for many forts of wprk. Turnips he has 

 cultivated for fome years, hoes them, and gets 

 good crops, but beft in the drill way, the rows 

 two fee.t afunder : he ufes them in feeding fheep, 

 and alfo fattening beafts. He finds that they 

 are not of any cqnfiderable ufe in this country, 

 compared to others where there is not an equal 

 plenty of grafs, which fprings all winter j and 



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