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yields fo much to the tread of beafts that it 

 breaks under them : the richer and the more 

 improved it is, the more fo. It is a great error 

 to aflert, that it would not do for tillage, for 

 there is none better for the purpofe if properly 

 managed. 



The average rent of the rich parts of this 

 tract is 305. an acre. In Coonagh there are 

 19,313 acres, half of it not worth 53. an acre, 

 being mountainous. In the laft twenty years, 

 the rents of the rich lands have rifen about a 

 fourth, and two- thirds fince the year 1748. 



Average of the county of Tipperary, i zs. 6d. 

 Ditto of Limerick, IDS. 6d. Ditto of Corke, 53. 



Eftates are generally very large, but fome fo 

 low as 300!. a year. Farms arife from fmall 

 ones in partnership to 5 or 6000 acres. The 

 tillage acts have had the effect of lefTening 

 them evidently. The great fyftem of this dif- 

 trict is that of grazing. Bullocks are bought in 

 at the fairs of Ballinafloe, Newport, Banagher, 

 Toomavarra, &c. in the months of September, 

 October, and November, the prices from 5!. 

 to 81. average, 61. Twenty years ago beads 

 were bought at 403. which now could not be 

 got under 4!. The prices having doubled, 

 allowing at the fame time for the improved 

 fize of beafts. As foon as bought, they are 

 turned into the coarfeft ground of the farm $ 

 the fattening ftock being put into the after- 

 grafs, the lean ones are turned after them ; if 

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