io DUBLIN. 



hay ; a good crop 20 load at 4cwt. an acre 

 round Dublin; through the county 12 load 

 an acre. Many dairies kept for letting from 



5 1. 15s. to 61. c; s. per cow; the dairyman 

 iinds labour, but has horfes enough kept him 

 to draw the milk to Dublin. 



On an average a cow will require, for her 

 fummer and winter food, an acre and an half, 



but not of the beft grafs. Of that an acre 



would do. The breed the old Irifh ; the 



Englifh cows do not give fo much milk, 

 from 4 to 6 lb. of butter a cow the produce 

 per week : the butter -milk fells from 4 s. to 



6 s. per barrel. A good cow fhould give 8 

 quarts a day, if lefs the cowman rejects her. 

 The winter food hay. .Very few fwine kept, 

 except by cottagers. Sheep they buy in June 

 or July, and fell them from September until 

 March ; buy in wethers three years old, at 

 20 s. and fell them out at 1 1. 115. 6d. but 

 give them hay. Plough with oxen four in a 

 plough; but in goring, or crofs --plowing, fix, 

 and do half an acre a day. To ieo acres 

 arable there muft be fix bullocks and eight 

 horfes. 



Plough nine inches deep at goring j price 

 of ploughing, fowing, and harrowing, 16 s. 

 to 20 s. an acre. Lav their fields in 4 foot 

 lands. Keeping horfes, 9 1. a year each. 

 No cutting of ftraw into chaff among the 

 common farmers: the plough oxen they work 

 on ftraw. They have more horfes than oxen ; 



put 



