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i. Potatoes. 2. Potatoes. 3. Oats, or bar- 

 ley, good crops. 4. Lay it out for what 

 comes, and in the fir.il feafon the fined graffes 

 appear. 



Some wheat is fown, but not generally by 

 the poor people. Oats are the common crop. 

 This is the fhort hiftory of their arable ma- 

 nagement. There are fome dairies ; from 12 

 to 24 cows in each, and are fet at 503. or one 

 cwt. of butter and ias. horn money, the dairy- 

 men's privilege is two col lops to 20 cows ; a 

 cabbin, and three acres of land. The butter 

 is all carried to Corke on horfes backs. Three 

 years ago 40 s. a cow was the higheft, The 

 common ftock of the mountains are young 

 cattle, bred by the poor people ; but the large 

 farmers go generally to Limerick for year- 

 lings, turn them on the mountains, where they 

 are kept till three years old, when they fell 

 them at Nedeen or Killarney, engaging them 

 to be with calf. Buy at 40 s. this year, but 

 ufed to be from 20 s. to 305. formerly fold at 

 os. now at 3!. The poor people's heifers fell 

 at three years old, at 305. their breed is the little 

 mountain, or Kerry cow, which upon good land 

 gives a great deal of milk. I have remarked, 

 as I travelled through the country, much of 

 the Alderney breed in fome of them. The 

 winter food, which the farmers provide, is 

 to keep bottom lands through the fummer, 

 which they call a nurfery, to which they bring 

 their cattle down from the mountains when 

 the weather becomes fevere. There are great 



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