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iiland towards Limerick. They get fand at 

 the fame place. Lime does beft for tillage, 

 and fand for grafs. The (lock farms are either 

 under dairies, or in the fucceffion fyftem, of 

 buying in year olds from the county of Clare, 

 and keeping them till three or four years old, 

 the heifers till they calve; buy at a guinea to 

 305. fell from 3!. 55. to 4!. jos. at four year 

 old. There are alfo fome cows fattened : 

 bought in in general at 3!, or 3!. los. fell in 

 October at 4!. los. to 5!. The dairies are let 

 to dairymen, the price is one cwt. of butter, 

 and i os. to 155. horn money; the dairyman 

 has all the calves, and mud fell off at Michael- 

 mas. His privilege is a houfe and potatoe gar- 

 den, and grafs for a cow for every ten. A 

 collop here, is one cow, one hprfe, two year- 

 lings, fix fheep ; two acres to feed a collop, 

 and fome two and a half. Every cabbin has a 

 bit of flax, which they fpin and manufacture 

 for their own ufe, there being fome weavers 

 difperfed about the country. A little pound 

 yarn is fold befides to Limerick, but not much. 

 A little wool is fpun for their own u'fe, and 

 wove into frize. 



The ftate of the poor is Something better 

 than it was twenty years ago, particularly their 

 cloathing, cattle, and cabbins. They live upon 

 potatoes and milk; all have cows ; and when 

 they dry them, buy others. They alfo have 

 butter, and mod of them keep pigs, killing 

 them for their own ufe. They have alfo her- 

 rings. They are in general in the cottar fyf- 



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