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of milk j good cows give 4 gallons. Colonel 

 Jephfon had a cow half bred, between the 

 Englifh long horned and HoldernefTe, that was 

 forced to be milked three times a day and gave 

 12 gallons a day, many times in the prefence 

 of various perfons. Every dairyman is allow- 

 ed a houfe, a garden of one acre and a half, 

 and grafs for a horfe, a cow, and fome a col- 

 lop of ftieep. Great quantities of lime are nfed : 

 they lay joo barrels an acre, at is, id. They 

 plough with horfes, four or fix to a plough. 

 The poor pay ros. rent for a cabin, and 205. 

 for one acre for potatoes ; 2!. 2s. for grafs for 

 a cow, and los. for the winter's hay. They 

 live upon potatoes generally the year through ; 

 all of them keep cows and pigs, which latter 

 they feed on fmall potatoes. Their circum- 

 flances are not better than 20 years ago ; for 

 though they have now 6d. and then had but 

 5d. yet the rife is not proportioned to that of 

 rents. Villages of cottars will take farms in 

 partnerfhip in the manner I have often defcrib- 

 cd. The foil of the country is in general lime- 

 ilone; but from Knockerera mountain, near 

 Mallow to Corke, there is no lime-done. 



Leafes are thirty-one years, or three lives, 

 and fome for three lives and thirty-one year's 

 after; and many farms let to middle-men, 

 who occupy no part of the land themfelves, but 

 re-let it. Above one-third of ( the county is 

 wafte land. 



There are collieries about ten miles off, near 

 Kantark, from which coal is fold at 33. a bar- 



i rd, 



