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177 calves, 177 two-year olds, 177 three- 

 year olds 531. 



Alfo upon 1000 acres there would be two breed- 

 ing mares, and fix colts, ten working heifers, 

 4 car horfes, and ten milch cows ; there would 

 alfo be 100 acres of 1000, in tillage, ten of 

 which under turnips every year, and fifty acres 

 of hay mown j an inftanceoutof thoufands how 

 little attention in Ireland is paid to providing 

 a due quantity of winter food. 



Mr. William Harden, thirty-two years ago, 

 fold wool at 6s. 6d. a ftone; it rofe gradually for 

 ten years to ics. 6d. and did not get up to 1 55. 

 till about four years ago; but the price was very 

 fluctuating, rifing and falling fuddenly without 

 any evident reafon ; the weight of the fleeces 

 have not increafed in thirty years, but the 

 number of (heep is greater j turnips were com- 

 monly fown at that time. In black cattle 

 however, there has been a great improvement, 

 being much larger than formerly. Calves have 

 rifen in price as much as wool, fuch as now 

 coft 455. might, thirty years ago, have been 

 had at 205. Mr. Harden's father bought a 

 two-year old bullock for 55. of a man now 

 alive. 



In tillage, buljocks and heifers are generally 

 ufed, four in a plough, and they do not quite 

 half an acre a day. Three ploughs will do an 

 acre ; they ftir five inches deep. The price 

 6s. Paring and burning take from twelve to 

 I forty 



