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Cabbages he cultivated for feveral years, but 

 finds them burft too foon to be of confiderable 

 ufe; turnips much better: but Reynolds' tur- 

 nip-cabbage he finds excellent for late fpring 

 food; has eight acres of very fine ones this 

 year, which coft him juft 20-!. labour of ma- 

 nuring included. 



Lord de Montalt keeps 2000 acres in his 

 hands, 1500 iheep, 40 plough bullocks, 12 

 cows, &c. His Lordfhip, for the purpofe 

 of draining his clay lands, ploughs and fho- 

 vels them up into broad highlands, fo as to 

 form regular fegments of circles,, in the 

 manner pra6tifed in fome counties in Eng- 

 land ; he does this that the furrows may 

 be drains to the land, for French drains will 

 not run, owing to the ftiffnefs of the clay. 

 He has not much of this land, however; 

 for in general his foil is the rich reddifh 

 fandy loam of the golden vale. He does 

 much of his ploughing with the plough of 

 Warwick and Shropshire, and finds it an- 

 fvvers very well. 



The mountain knds of Tipperary one- 

 Icventh of the county, the reft lets at 2.0-5. 

 an acre on an average. There is fome 

 woollen manufactory fcattcred through it, 

 efpecially at Thurles, Tipperary, Clonmell, 

 &c. Mr. John Penning, near Colchin, em- 

 ploys 30 combers. The year's purchafe of 

 land 20, was 25 foms years ago. The fall 



owing. 



