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Bullocks 16,000 head, 32,000 barrels ; 41,000 

 hogs, 20,000 barrels. Butter 22,000. Firkins 

 of half a hundred weight each, both increafe 

 this year, the whole being 



240,000 firkins of butter 

 120,000 barrels of beef. 



Export of woollen yarn from Corke, 300,000!. 

 a year in the Irifh market. No wool fmug- 

 gled, or at lead very little. The wool comes 

 to Corke, &c. and is delivered out to combers, 

 who make it into balls. Thefe balls^are bought 

 up by the French agents at a vaft price, and 

 exported ; but even this does not amount to 

 40,000 1. a year. 



PRICES. 



Beef, 21 s. per cwt. never fo high by 2S. 6d. 

 Pork, 308. never higher than 18 s. 6d. owing 

 to the army demand. Slaughter dung, 8d. 

 for a horfe-load. Country labourer 6d. about 

 town 10 d. Milk 7 pints a penny. Coals 

 3 s. 8 d. to 53. a barrel, 6 of which make a 

 ton. Eggs 4 a penny. 



Corke labourers. Cellar ones 20,000 ; have 

 is. i d. a day, and as much bread, beef and 

 beer, as they can eat and drink, and 7lb. of 

 offals a week for their families. Rent for their 

 houfe, 40 s. Mafon and Carpenters labourers 

 iod. a day. Sailors, now, 3!. a month and 

 provifions : before the American war, 28s. 

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