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tumn, with 405. profit. Sheep they either 

 breed, or buy hoggits in May, at I2S. to 155. 

 each in the fleece, and fell them fat, at three 

 years and an half old, from il. is. to il. 45. 

 each; they get three fleeces, worth i8s. the 

 profit jos. a head, keeping them three fum- 

 tners and two winters. No folding. Flocks 

 rife from 100 to 2000, they calculate to keep 

 a fheep to every acre of their farms. The 

 fleeces, on an average of a running flock, are 

 three to a Hone of 1 6 Ib. The price, this year, 

 175. 6d. twenty years ago only 95. or los. 

 Not much alteration in the number of fheep 

 through the country ; all fat ones, are in win- 

 ter fed with turnips and a little hay. Their 

 low lands rot ; but being more careful than 

 formerly, it is not fo common as it was ; that, 

 with the /</, (a fudden giddinefs) and the red 

 water, are the chief diflempers they are troubled 

 with. 



Milch cows are kept only for convenience, a 

 few to every farm. An acre and half necef- 

 fary to keep one the year through, but muft 

 have ii. ton of hay befides. One four or five 

 years old ready for milk in the fpring, fells for 

 five or fix guineas. A three years old heifer 

 ready to calve, four or five guineas. 



The bounty on the inland carriage of flour 

 to Dublin has occafioncd the building feveral 

 mills, five confiderable ones, four were imme- 

 diately built in confequence. The quantity 

 of tillage has increafed double in 20 years ; 



probably 



