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very honeft. For u fkains, 8d. 12 ad. 

 13 lod. 14 i id. They are forted and 

 packed in packs of 180 balls, which fell at 30!. 

 a pack. It was never known to be higher than 

 lall year: twenty years ago it was 25!. a pack, 

 about a fourth of what is fpun in this part of 

 the kingdom, is worked up at home. The trade 

 has been a rifing one for two years. 



Edward Roche, Efq; of Kildining, gave me, 

 at Caftle Martyr, the following account of 

 fome improvements he has made. Has done 250 

 acres of mountain, and began upon 50 of bog ; 

 the former with paring and burning with 

 ploughs, at 75. and cutting and burning, 53. 6d. 

 in June and July. Limes with the afhes, 50 bar- 

 rels per acre, at 47 gallons, or 75, at 5d. Spread 

 and plough in April or May ; then fet to poor 

 people, at 303. an acre. They trench in po- 

 tatoes in the common way, get on an average 

 fixty barrels, then trench in rye or black oats, 

 fix men to an acre ; crops fix barrels of rye, 

 20 ftone per barrel, at 7$. or 8s. and black oats, 

 10 kilderkins, at 1 1 ftone ; then white oats, 

 8 barrels, fowgrafs feeds one barrel, with them, 

 and 81b. white clover, and 2lb. rib-grafs. 

 The land before not 6d. an acre, could let it 

 now at 78. Ploughs with fix bullocks firft, 

 and four afterwards. Potatoe ftalks he carries 

 to his pound, but in general are left in heaps 

 in the field, and are a nuifance to ploughing. 

 In Wicklow, they bleed their horfes and 

 cows, and mix the blood with meal for 

 food. 



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