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an artificial evil, for it prevents thofe exertions, which the far- 

 mers in other countries are obliged to make, in order to fupport 

 their flock* and herds. Mild as the Irifli climate is, the gra- 

 ziers in Tipperary, that is in the fouth of the kingdom, find 

 frothing more profitable than turneps, though hoeing them is 

 quite unknown, and by means of that root, fo very imperfeclb/ 

 managed, fupply Dublin with mutton in the fpring, to their 

 very great emolument. But the want of winter food is more 

 apparent in black cattle, which upon fiich very rich land, 

 ought to rife to a fize which is fcaice ever met with in Ireland, 

 the ufual weight being frcm four to eight hundred ; but from 

 four hundred and a half to five>and fix hundred weight, the 

 common fi'^e o'n the rich grounds of Limerick ; fuch lard in- 

 England is covered with herds that weigh from ten to fifteen 

 hundred weight each ; this vaft difference is owing to their be- 

 ing reared the two firfi winters with fuch a deficiency of food, 

 that their growth is ftinted, fo that when they come upon the 

 fine bullock land, they are of a fize which can never be fat- 

 tened to the weight of Englifh oxen. The deficiency in 

 turneps, &c. renders hay very valuable in Ireland, which oc- 

 callons its being given fparingly to cattle ; but if they had 

 while young* as many turneps as they would eat in addition to 

 their prefent quantity of hay, and were protected in warm yards 

 againft the wind and rain, they would rife to a Hze unknown at 

 prefent in that kingdom. Upon this and a variety of other ac- 

 counts, there is fcarcely any objeft in its agriculture of fo 

 much importance as the introduction of that plant under the 

 right cultivation. 



SECTION XIII. 



'TytJ'es 'Church LanJs. 



OUR fitter kingdom labours under this lu-nvv burden as well 

 as her neighbours, to which is very much owingthe un- 

 cultivated ftate of fo great a part of her territory. The fol- 

 lowing are the minutes of the journey : 



