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i. Potatoes, fow eight pecks, at 70! b. and 

 get 8olb. at 7!. an acre. 2. Wheat, 61. 3. 

 Oats. 4. Oats. (Poor crops not above 3!. jos, 

 an acre.) 5. Lay it out to weeds, Sec. 



Lime the manure, from 60 to 80 barrels an 

 acre, which cofts 6d. to 8d. a barrel burning, 

 Mr. Herbert can burn it for 4d. five miles off. 

 Pafturage is applied chiefly to dairies ; the com- 

 mon ones about 40 or 50 cows. They are all 

 let at 405. to 503. a cow. Three acres allow- 

 ed to a cow; fome paid in butter. The dairy- 

 man has his privilege, which is a cabbin, pota- 

 toe garden, liberty to cut turf, and a quantity 

 of land proportioned to the number of cows. 

 The butter is all fent to Corke on hoifes backs 

 in truckles, and in that way the poor horfes of 

 the country will carry 8 cwt. thediftance 37 

 miles. They go in two days, and generally 

 home in a week. Bring back rum, groceries", 

 &c. they are paid pd. for carrying a firkin of 

 butter of 561b. and for the back carriage is. 8d, 

 a cwt. Very few fheep kept ; no flocks, except 

 Mr. Herbert's. It is remarkable, that no fheep 

 in the country are better fattened than many 

 upon Mac Gilly Cuddy's Reeks, which are the 

 wildeft and moft defolate region of all Kerry. 

 Great herds of goats are kept on all the moun- 

 tains of this country, and prove of infinite ufe 

 to the poor people. The inhabitants are not 

 in general well off; fome of them have neither 

 cows nor goats, living entirely upon potatoes, 

 yet are they better than twenty years ago, par- 

 ticularly in cloathing. Price of proviiion the 



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