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in the fields for this purpofe. The time of 

 felling autumn. The profit they make per 

 bullock on an average, about three guineas. 

 The principal winter fyflem is buying calves, 

 at il. is. to 2\. 2s. keeping them till May, and 

 then felling them at 2os. to 308. profit, but 

 give them a bellyful of their beft hay. A great 

 many fheep are alfo fent to be wintered from 

 Tipperary, which is extraordinary, as their 

 own lands are much drier than thefe of Lime- 

 rick : they do this by hiring farms for the pur-* 

 pofe This is one of the mod profitable arti- 

 cles ; they bring the fpring lambs in O6tober, 

 and keep them till May, and then fend them 

 back to Tipperary, and they are much better 

 than thofe they left there. 



The graziers are many of them rich, but 

 generally fpeaking, not fo much from the im- 

 mediate profit, as from advantageous leafes. 

 I wanted much to be informed of their profit, 

 but it is exceedingly difficult to come near it, 

 for not a grazier in the country but denies his 

 making any thing confiderable : this is fup- 

 pofed to be a great piece of art, but I am very 

 apt to think the truth not fo far from the de- 

 claration, at leaft as well as I am able to judge 

 from the information I have received. 



Rent of an acre and a half for a bullock 1 2 6 



County cefs, at 6d. * o o t? 



Mowing and making one-third of an acre hay 030 



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