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and even two. The common people do not lay 

 on more than four or five boat loads to an acre, 

 but Mr. Head always ten, and the whole expenfe 

 he calculates at 405. Much bad land has been 

 reclaimed by it, and to great profit. All their 

 dung is ufed for potatoes. 



The tillage of the common people is done 

 with horfes, four in a plough, which do half 

 an acre a day: gentlemen ufe four oxen. The 

 price 8s. an acre. No paring and burning. 



They (hut up their meadows for hay in 

 March or April, and rarely begin to mow till 

 September. I fhould remark, that I faw the 

 hay making or marring all the way (October 

 3d) from Johnftown hither, with many fields 

 covered with water, and the cocks forming 

 little iflands in them. They are generally two 

 months making it ; the crop one to one ton 

 and a half per acre. 



There is no regular fyftem of cattle in this 

 barony, there not being above four or five gra- 

 ziers -, but gentlemen, in their domains, have 

 all the different fyftem s. The common far- 

 mers keep a few of moft forts of cattle, except 

 fat ones. No large flocks of (heep, but every 

 farmer a few breeding ewes. The fleeces four 

 to a ftone. They fell either lambs, hoggits, 

 or two or three year olds ; the price of a two- 

 year old ewe i os. they have no winter food but 

 grafs, even the gentlemen have their fat mut- 

 ton all winter from the low grafs lands on the 



Shannon, 



