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Tyrone. This line of country, in point of 

 foil, inferior to what I have of late gone through : 

 fo that I confider the rich country to end at 

 Clonmell. For the following account of the 

 hufbandry of the county of Waterford I am 

 obliged to the attention of Lord Tyrone, 

 who omitted no means or' informing me 

 accurately. 



That county is divided into very large farms, 

 and the renters of them keep cows generally, 

 which they let to dairymen. One farmer, Mr. 

 Peor, has 2000 cows, and pays 2000! . a year, 

 but they rarely let more to one man than 50 

 cows, ufually about 20; many of thefe men 

 pay weekly, and others quarterly : the rent 

 from 503. to 3!. 55. no fuch thing as horn- 

 money. The dairyman's privilege is a houfe 

 and two or three acres of land, or a horfe and 

 two cows in twenty. They make nothing but 

 butter, and all keep hogs; but do not feed 

 them with milk, felling it all; 1,300 to 1,500 

 churns full of milk, each eight gallons, goes 

 into Waterford every day in the year, and a 

 prodigious quantity to Carrick. The county 

 is by far the greatefl dairying one in Ireland. 

 The breed is the common mountain cow, poor 

 to look .at, but great milkers, five or fix pot- 

 tles at a meal common. Price of them cl, at 

 an average. Average rent of all the land un- 

 der cows, i os. One-third of the county moun- 

 tain, at 6d. the other two-thirds, at IDS. Along 

 the Blackwater, good land, and four miles 

 round Waterford, 2os. or 253. The quantity 



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