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from the i5th of July to the i5th of Septem- 

 ber, which lateneis is owing to their feeding fo 

 late in the fpring. They ufually upon the 

 average of weather, and management, get it 

 into the large cock in about ten days, and leave 

 it in that from one to two months ; the medi- 

 um produce per acre, two tons and a quarter, 

 and the price 305, a ton - 3 the women here ne- 

 ver make it. 



Tillage is performed more with horfes than 

 with horned cattle -, the latter only by confi- 

 derable graziers, and they are ufually fpayed 

 heifers. Four horfes, or four heifers to a 

 plough, which do half an acre a day j the 

 depth, from the fhallownefs of the foil, not . 

 more than fix or feven inches ; the price 73. 6d. 

 an acre. Very few hogs kept, not more than 

 for mere convenience. 



To hire and flock a farm will, on an ave- 

 rage, take 40$. an acre, if a grazing one, but 

 lei's in proportion to the tillage ; but there are 

 men who will hire on little or no capital, this 

 however is much lefs than formerly, from fe- 

 veral landlords having fuffered feverely from it. 

 The tillage of the whole country is very incon- 

 fiderable ; it is chiefly pafturage, not one acre 

 in fifteen is tilled; the barony of Garrey caftle 

 has much more ; one reafon of there not being 

 more, is the number of farms, from 150 to 

 400 acres, under leafes for ever, which are fo 

 highly improved by the tenants, that they ab- 

 itain from tillage, under the idea of its being 



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