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Cows. 



From three Kerry cows, from the middle 

 of May to the middle of September, he had 

 241b. of butter a week. 



The Colonel favoured me with the follow- 

 ing particulars of the common hufbandry about 

 Cellbridge. Farms generally 100 acres j the 

 medium of the county from 20I. to iool. 

 Soil various ; itoney loams, gravels and clays, 

 and on lime-fione quarries. Rents about 

 il. 1 os on an average. Their courfe, 



1. Fallow. 



2. Wheat, fow a barrel and get 7. 



3. Oats, fow two barrels and get 14. 



4. Oats. 



A little barley is cultivated. 



They plough three or four times for wheat. 

 Turnips were fown in fields 30 years ago, 

 but left off on account of the poor ftealing 

 them. Great quantities of potatoes planted 

 in the trenching way, the expenfe 3I. in la- 

 bour only to put in if done by hire, and 40s. 

 if for themfelves. The cottagers pay the far- 

 mers 81. an acre for the land ready dunged, 

 and they require three car loads to every fquare 

 perch. — This great manuring fwallows up not 

 only all the dung of the farm, but nine tenths 

 of that of the kingdom. They begin to 

 plant in March, and continue it to the end of 

 May, moft of them weed, the crop upon an 

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