144 LIMERICK GRAZING?. 



carrots, for cabbages, and in a word for every 

 thing. I think upon the whole, it is the rich- 

 eft foil I ever faw, and fuch as is applicable to 

 every purpofe you can wifli : it will fat the 

 largeft bullock, and at the fame time do equal- 

 ly well for iheep, for tillage, for turneps, for 

 wheat, for beans, and in a word, for every 

 trop and circumftance of profitable huf- 

 bandry. 



The lower lands are wetter, and under 

 them a yellow clay, whereas in the upper, 

 it is fandy loam to a confiderable depth. The 

 rent in England would be confiderably higher 

 than this of the bullock land in Ireland. 



The farms are of all fares. The bullock farm 

 rife to 600 acres, which quantity is a large 

 farm ; but there are many fmall ones under 

 cottars and dairymen : the general run in 

 flocking is a bullock of four and a half to fe- 

 ven cwt. average five hundred and a half to the 

 acre, and quarter for the fummer's grafs but 

 their not generally having a bullock to an 

 acre, is owing to their keeping fheep and calves 

 fo late, in which they do even to June. The 

 winter's hay amounts to about a rood, befides 

 the acre for the fummer food. Thefe beafts 

 are bought in at autumn, at three or four 

 years old, average price, 5!. they are fed regu- 

 larly through the winter with hay everyday in 

 the fields where they are to be fattened vn fum- 

 mer ; they chufe the dry fields for it, but ftill 

 mifchief is done by it. All the hay is flacked 

 2 in 



