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for a cow from two to four acres. They ge- 

 nerally breed their own by rearing a few calves 

 every year ; the young flock are kept on the 

 mountains in fummer, and in the worft of the 

 low land in winter. They never feed their 

 cows with any hay, except in very fevere wea- 

 ther. No other flock but cows. 



The foils are various at this end of the coun- 

 ty, clay and fhingly flate, with a reddifh mold 

 upon it and gravelly loams. At the other end, 

 they have lime-flone lands. They have, how- 

 ever, about Curraghmoor lime-flone gravel 

 of a fliff nature. Lime at the kiln gd. a bar- 

 rel; Lord Tyrone pays is. for the flone, and 

 2s. 8d. a barrel for the culm, and pays ad. a 

 barrel for breaking and burning, all which 

 make qd. Every barrel of culm gives feven 

 of lime 3 a ton of flone produces four barrels 

 of lime: the barrel of lime four cubical feet. 

 Not a thirtieth part of the country under the 

 plough. The tillage confifls only of a little 

 . patches broken up by the cabbins ; it has been 

 increafing thefe 15 years: but the principal 

 increafe has been within thefe ten years. The 

 courfe of crops : 



i. Potatoes. 2. potatoes. 3. Barley, or 

 oats. 4. Oats. 5. Oats : continued while the 

 land yields. Wheat is coming in. Some who 

 till large fields, and do not take fo many crops. 

 About Dungarvon, there are many potatoes 

 planted, which are fent to Dublin in boats, 

 with loads of birch brooms, and they are faid 



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