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It is generally a corn country, yet are there 

 fome graziers that buy in bullocks^ but more 

 cows. Alfo fome dairies that fatten veal for 

 Dublin, by which they make 3!. or 4!. a cow ; 

 feeding them in winter when dry on ftraw, 

 fome on hay. They are let out to dairymen at 

 4!. a cow. The price of milch cows, in 

 May, 5!. to 7!. One acre and a half will 

 fummer feed one, and half an acre of hay for 

 winter. 



The fheep kept are generally ewe flocks for 

 fattening, for Dublin market. Buy in at Bal- 

 linafloe, at los. to 155. Sell the lamb in June 

 or July, at 8s. to 145. and the ewe in Novem- 

 ber, at the fame price they gave, keep them 

 chiefly on clover. No folding. Medium price 

 of wool, for 10 years paft, i6s. clip three to a 

 {tone. They are not at all fubjecl to the 

 rot. A great many hogs bred; keep them 

 for fattening on potatoes ; fome are finifh- 

 ed with offal corn and peafe; in fummer 

 they feed them on clover. Mark this ! one 

 would think from more than one circum- 

 flance, that a good farmer in England was 

 fpeaking. 



In hiring and flocking a farm of 200 acres. 

 a man ought to employ 500!. but fome of 

 them will do it with 200!. Stock for 200 

 acres to have 100 acres corn, and fallow 

 every year. 



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