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bags. He ufed to pay 35. a cwt. in winter, 

 and 35. 6d. in fummer for 84 miles, but now 

 the price is 2s 6d. in fummer, and 35. in 

 winter. Mr. Moore tried Englifh broad- 

 wheeled waggons, with high priced ftrong 

 horfes, but they did not anfwer at all : he 

 has found the cars to carry much greater loads. 



He has not found that the premium has 

 over flocked the Dublin market, which he 

 attributes to there being an export from 

 Dublin, notwithftanding fuch exported corn 

 receives no bounty. The bran Mr. Moore 

 applies to breeding and fattening hogs, con- 

 trary to the practice of moil: other mills, 

 who having tried it, have given that practice 

 up. He has thirty breeding fows and fix 

 hundred pigs, which are fed and fattened 

 entirely on it, and the fat is firm and good. 

 The price of bran is is. id. the fix ftone, 

 and the hogs anfwer fo well, that he would 

 contract for other bran to be delivered him 

 at that price, in order to ufe it in this man- 

 ner. He does not depend entirely on breed- 

 ing his own, but buys many ftores. He 

 is entirely in the Berkfhire breed, which he 

 finds much fuperior to the Irifh/ I obferved 

 his hogs, and thought them very fine ones. 

 His fows bring three litters each, feven pigs on 

 an average, in a year and a quarter j fells them 

 at half a year to two years old, putting 

 them to fat as foon as they have done grow- 

 ing ; but when there is a great demand, fats 

 them young. The average fat pig, two cwt. 



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