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Upon other parts of the farm, where calves 

 are not fed in this manner, fheep are fubfti- 

 tuted. Much land is hired here by Tipperary 

 farmers, who bring their fheep to it; and 

 where this is not the cafe, the Limerick farmers 

 have both coarfe and rich land which enables 

 them to go into fheep. They keep flocks of 

 breeding ewes. If a man has 100 ewes, he 

 will have 100 lambs, 100 yearlings, 100 two- 

 year olds, 100 three-year olds, felling every 

 year 50 three-year old fat wethers, and 50 

 culled ewes, viz. 



56 wethers, at 255; 62 10 o 



50 culled ewes, fat, at 235. 57 10 o 



400 fleeces, 133 ftoneof wotil, at i$s. 99 15 o 



500 Total flock jC- 2I 9 T 5 



If a man has only rich land in thofe ba- 

 ronies, without any in Tipperary, then he 

 keeps only bullocks regularly ; but he buys in 

 fome baggit (heep, which he keeps a year, and 

 fells fat. The Tipperary iyftem is fuppofed 

 to be the moft profitable, for they have given 

 more for the Limerick lands than the Limerick 

 people themfelves. Befides thefe methods, 

 there is another which is buying in cows in 

 March, April, May, and June, at 3!. to 61. 

 each, and ieilmg them fat with 403. profit. 

 This is very profitable, but fubjecl: to difficul- 

 ties, for they are troublefoms to pick up, and 

 much fubjecl: to diitempers. 



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