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and here inftead of wheat. A crop of bere 

 produces 10 barrels ; barley yields 8. No tur- 

 nips or rape. A few of the better farmers fo\v 

 ciover, but the number very inconfiderable. 

 Flax is ibwn by few of the common people in 

 patches. Paring and burning is called graf- 

 ting and burning is practifed by the common 

 farmers, upon fuch eftates as their landlords 

 will permit. They manure with fea fand for 

 corn, and fea weed for potatoes ; they will car- 

 ry them three miles from the fea: all make com- 

 pofts of fand and earth. Dairies are numerous, 

 from twenty to fifty cows fet at 3!. a COY/. 

 The dairyman has his privilege, which is an 

 acre of land for every ten cows, a good houfe 

 and dairy j a collop for every 10 cows, and will 

 keep 8 or 10 pigs. If not paid in money, it 

 is onecwt. of butter and i as. in money. A cow 

 that gives two gallons a day the dairyman can- 

 not reject : it will take three acres- to a cow, 

 but privilege and all is four acres. Very few 

 flocks in this country ; Mr. Robert Fitz- 

 gerald has 1000 to 1500 : but the number too 

 few to be worth mentioning. The poor peo- 

 ple all keep a collop or two of fheep, with which 

 they clothe themlelves. They plough gene- 

 rally with four horfes, fow with two, and ufe 

 ploughs of fo bad a conitru(5tion, that a man 

 attends them with a ftrongftick leaning on the 

 beam to keep it in the ground. 



Land fells at twenty-five years purchafe. 

 Rents have not fallen ; for very little of it is 

 let at more than its value. Tythes are every 



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