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with another, I have probably obtained as good prices 

 ( taking into account waste and expenses), as those who had 

 the convenience of keeping. All large farmers, however, 

 ought to have a good granary.* My usual practice has 

 been to have as much as I could of wheat put in, but the 

 price of wheat, last harvest, being so low, and the price of 

 barley being good, I filled my barn with barley to sell first, 

 and bought seed wheat ; this arrangement turned out 

 profitable to me. It is only a portion of the stall- feeders, 

 and the occupiers of good turnip land, that are benefited by 

 a great rise in the price of meat, in the spring. The 

 graziers of this and adjoining counties suffer, from their 

 being consequently obliged to purchase at higher prices, for 

 their summer's grazing. Since the publication of the first 

 edition, times have greatly improved for all occupiers of 

 land, but particularly for those of a poor clay, who had, for 

 a considerable time, been in a most distressed state ; but 

 all will now, I trust, partake of that prosperity which has 

 for some lime past been generally felt throughout the 

 country, excepting by those engaged in agriculture. 



ON THE IMPORTATION OF IRISH PRODUCE. 



Many of the English occupiers of land have looked with a 

 jealous eye on the great importation of Irish agricultural 

 produce. Ireland has as much ri^ht to send its surplus 

 agricultural produce to any part of England as Scotland 

 has ; or, as one part of England has to send any of its 

 produce to another part, where it is likely to fetch a better 

 price. The Irish agricultural population ought to excite 

 the pity, not the jealousy, of the English; for in the 

 comforts of a civilised nation, as to food, clothing, con- 

 tentment, and good order (the consequence of long- 

 continued industrious habits), the agricultural population 

 of Ireland could have as little resembled the English had 

 they been two thousand miles asunder, and Ireland been 

 no part of the British Empire. I have ever looked on an 

 Irishman in the same light as a Yorkshireinan, or a man of 

 any other county. I therefore was much surprised to hear 



* Before beginning to cart grain at harvest, it is well to consider which 

 is the more likely to be in the greatest demand after harvest, wheat or 

 barley, to determine with which the barn shall be filled. 



