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farmers that ever were in Ireland. The coun- 

 try is all under fheep, and the foil dry fandy 

 loam. The Iheep fyflem of Tipperary is to 

 breed and keep the lambs till three-year old 

 wethers, fat, and fell them at 26s. at an aver- 

 age; keep the ewe lambs, and cull the old 

 flock, felling an equal number of fat ewes at 

 three to four years old, the average price 2os. 

 in Oclober, the wool of all the flock in general 

 amounts to three fleeces, per flone, of i61b. or 

 6s. a head. From hence to Clonmell, there 

 are many fheep; to Cullen in Kilkenny, three 

 or four miles beyond Thurles, within two miles 

 of Cullen, three or four and twenty miles N. 

 to S. and from Cullen to within three miles of 

 Cullen, which is 30 : generally fpeaking, this 

 is all fheep, but there are many fpots in it where 

 bullocks are fed. The flock mixed with fheep 

 are ufually calves, bought in at fix to eight 

 months, 305. to 403. average 323. and when 

 they are three year old, fend them to the richer 

 lands in the county of Limerick, (where every 

 Tipperary grazier has a farm) to fat. When, 

 they have not enough of their own rearing, 

 they buy three-year okls at Ballynafloe, and 

 fatten them in Limerick. In general, this land 

 will carry three to five fheep to the acre, and 

 bear fome calves befides. One acre and three 

 quarters a bullock the year through, one half 

 for hay. 



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