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and weaving. About Good Friday is the 

 time of fowing; but later fown is bad. The 

 fky farmers, (and often the better fort) that is 

 the petty ones, let potatoe ground for it, at 

 61. an acre to cotters. 



Great quantities of potatoes in the trench- 

 ing way, and all the dung is ufed for them. 

 A common way is, for the farmers to let them 

 have land for nothing, upon condition of their 

 dunging it, which all do that have not land 

 of their own: if not, they pay from 4I. to 

 61. dunged, or turnip land fed with fheep, 

 which they prefer, the potatoes being drier 

 and better. The apple potatoe is moft ef- 

 teemed, becaufe they are great bearers, laft 

 through the fummer, and have been kept 

 two years. Not much lime ufed, having been 

 tried, but has not anfwered ; limeftone gravel 

 on lay to be broken up, has a very great effect. 

 The expenfe 10s. or 1 5s. The grafs is chiefly 

 applied to heifers, or ftore bullocks 5 the firft 

 fold in fmall parcels at home, the latter at Bal- 

 Iynafloe or Bannagher. They buy them in at 

 a year or two years old; the firft 30s. to 50s. 

 the latter from 55s. to 57s. Keep them a 

 year and four or five months, or only a year: 

 in a year they will make, by the firft, 25s. to 

 30s. and from 30s. to 40s. by the others. 



Wherever the land is good enough, a few 

 cows bought in for fattening, in May, at il. 

 15s. to 5I. and fold with 40s. a head profit. 

 The poor people all rear calves. 



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