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the farmer has a tract of mountain, they will 

 be turned into that at firft. They are put to 

 hay after Chriftmas, and kept at it till May. 

 An acre of hay for three bullocks is reckoned 

 a good allowance, the quantity will be from 

 three to four tons. It is given fcattered upon 

 the ground in dry fields, till the latter end of 

 April, or the beginning of May, when they 

 are collected into a fmall fpace, in order for 

 the grafs eliewhere to grow. About the loth 

 of May they are put to grafs for the fummer j 

 and in this, the method is to turn into every 

 field the flock which they imagine will be 

 maintained by it, and leave the whole there 

 till fat. The Corke butchers come in July 

 and Augufl to make their bargains, and begin 

 to draw in September, and continue to take 

 them till December. Some graziers keep 

 them with hay till the market rifes, but it is 

 not a common practice. It is thought that 

 they begin to lofe flem about the aoth of No- 

 vember, and that after the firft nothing is 

 gained. Average felling price, 9!. los. It 

 vibrates from 81. to ul. los; 



Annexed to this bullock fyftem is that of 

 buying in bull calves* fix months old, in 

 September and October, from aos. to 405. 

 each, fome to 3!. thefe are fed in well fhelter- 

 ed prights with grafs and hay, and fold in 

 May and June with 205. profit upon an ave- 

 rage. One acre of hay will yield enough for 

 nine calves ; the proportion is, to buy a calf 

 to every acre. 



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