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fome none at ali. Many of them are matter 

 of a car and horfe, with which they work for 

 hire ; alfo one or two pigs, and much poultry 

 by means of their potatoes. 



Leaving; General Walfh's, palled a fine 

 wood on the right, within a wall. See much 

 good wheat and bere to Athy. Going through 

 that town the road leads on the banks of the 

 river Barrow, which winds through the vale 

 to the right ; the verdure beautiful, and the 

 country pleafant. Pafs over much light dry 

 fandy gravelly loam, as line turnip land as I 

 ever faw, but not one cultivated in the coun- 

 try. It is this foil all the way from Athy to 

 Carlow ; lets from 16s, to 20s. an acre. The 

 courfes are: 



i. Fallow. 2. Wheat, yielding 5 or 6 bar- 

 rels. 



Alfo, 1. Fallow. 2. Wheat. 3. Oats, and 

 grafs feeds, or left to turf itfelf, thev ufe lime 

 with fuccefs : they have gravel, but that does 

 beftfor ftrong lands, and this upon land form- 

 ed for 20 barrels a,n acre of barley after tur- 

 nips. Thefe people by the Norfolk husban- 

 dry would make a crown where they now re- 

 ceive fix-pence. 



Called on Mr. Vicars at Ballynakill, a con- 

 fiderable grazier, who farms near 2000 acres 

 in different counties. His hufbindry confifls 

 chiefly of feeding fheep and bullocks: one 

 fheep fyftem is to keep ewes for breeding, 

 the fale being 3 year old wethers, fome of 



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