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9 s. leaves fix for three years. They cultivate 

 it in the common courfe of I. fallow, 2. wheat, 

 3. barley, and 4. oats. Turnips not generally 

 come in, but farmer Macguire lias 20 acres 

 to 40 every year, but does not hoe them, he 

 feeds fheep on the land and then fows barley 

 and clover Clover would be more general, 

 was it not for the expenfe of picking the 

 {tones for mowing, which coils 10s. or 12s. 

 an acre. Sometimes mow it once, and feed 

 afterwards ; the crops exceedingly great. A 

 few tares fown for the horfes. On the banks 

 of the Nanny water, many white peafe fown, 

 iiiftead of a fallow, and good crops, wheat 

 fown after them. They alio fow beans about 

 Kilbrue. Every farmer has a little flax, from 

 a rood to an acre, and all the cottagers a fpot, 

 if they have any land, they go through the 

 whole prccefs themfelves, and fpin and weave 

 it. From hence to Drogheda, there is a con- 

 fiderable manufacture of coarfe cloth, which 

 is exported to Liverpool, about 1 s. a yard. 

 At Navan there is a fabrick of facking for 

 home confumptionj the weavers earn is. a 

 day at thefe works. 



Potatoes are a great article of culture ± the 

 cottagers take land of the farmers, giving them 

 4I. 1 os. an acre, dunged. All in the trench- 

 ing way, the ridge fix feet, the furrow two 

 and a half j always weed them, the belt fea- 

 fon for planting the middle of April, The 

 crop 64 barrels on an average, and the price 

 3s. 6d. a barrel. They have got much inta 

 the apple potatoe. 



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