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they find the advantage of it fo clearly as to 

 be Teen in the effect to an inch : but when 

 land is got much out of heart, then the lime 

 will not do ; and they lay it down to clover 

 for, feveral years till there is fomething of a 

 turf, after which it will anfvver well. Hollow 

 draining is generally ufed, even by the com- 

 mon farmers, who have found by experience 

 that their lime will do no good till the land is 

 drained. The fences about new inclofed 

 pieces, and thofe made in general by gentle- 

 men, are ditches fix feet deep, feven feet 

 wide, and 14 inches at bottom, with two 

 rows of quick in the bank, furz fown on the 

 top, or a dead hedge of bru(h. Good grafs 

 land for meadow lets for 3 or 4I. an acre; 

 mow it all and get three ton of hay an acre or 

 fifteen Infh load. Many dairies of cows, up 

 to 50 and 60, kept here for butter. Mr. 

 Kelly, near the obeliik, Drogheda, has 200 

 cows let at 5I. The breed is half Englifhand 

 half Irifh, worth 5 to 7I. each ; the farmers 

 let theirs to dairy-men, who are common la- 

 bourers, at 4I. a piece, but if they won't give 

 five to feven quarts at a meal they may be re- 

 jected; a good one will give ten quarts of 

 milk per meal, the produce about 5I. confe- 

 quently there is 20s. a head profit. As but- 

 ter-milk is all the food of the people, the num- 

 ber of fwme kept is very fmall : it is carried 

 to Drogheda, and fold at fix quarts a penny. 

 The cows are fed in winter on hay alon?, ; all 

 are kept abroad in the day, but houfed at 

 night. They rearalmoft all the calves., wean- 



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