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flacked in the fields where it is defigned to be 

 fed, and fcattered about ; and fhame on them, 

 they do the fame with their flraw -, but no 

 wonder the farm-yard fyftem is unknown, for 

 they fell much of their corn in the flack in the 

 field, which gentlemen buy for ftraw. Great 

 improvements have been made in the Duhar- 

 row mountains, infomuch that the tythes of 

 one parifh have rifen from 70!. a year to 

 400!. 



The fheep in the Ormond baronies are kept 

 chiefly for breeding ; they do not fell the lambs 

 till they become three years old wethers ; give 

 the ewes the ram at two years old, which fup- 

 ply the place of the old ewes, culled out and 

 fattened at four years old, going five. In 170 

 there are 50 ewes, 40 lambs, 40 two-year olds, 

 20 three year old wethers fold, 20 ewes kept, 

 and 20 old ones fold. Ten are kept for acci- 

 dents. The fat wethers fell at 2os. fromgrafs, 

 and 3 os. from turnips \ and the 20 culled ewes 

 will fell at aos. each ; the wool of the whole, 

 three fleeces to a flone. Mr. Robert Gowen 

 has fold a fcore of four-year old wethers at 

 Dublin, for 59!, Their black cattle are in the 

 fucceflion way. To 1000 acres, befides 1500 

 fheep, they will buy in 180 year-old calves 

 every year, at 455. bought in from May to 

 September, the right time May and June; they 

 keep them two years and an half, felling them 

 in November, at 61. to 81. allowing three for 

 Ipfles, there would be 



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