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acre ; and at a diftance there is a cuftom of the 

 little tillage- farmers hiring the crop of hay of 

 a gentleman or farmer, and giving him, mere- 

 ly" for the hay, 3I. to 51. an acre, they taking 

 all the expenses upon themfelves, and not 

 having the after-grafs. Dairies common on 

 the hills on coarfe grafs, at 10s. or 12s. an 

 acre. A good cow will give three gallons and 

 an half of milk a day. As they fell all the 

 butter-milk, they have little notion of keep- 

 ing hogs, on account of dairies. In winter, 

 the cows that give milk have hay; the others 

 ftraw : all run abroad. Few grazing farms, 

 but in the barony of Cranagh there are fome. 

 Value of a cow's hide 15s. to 1 8s. per cwt. 

 Sheep are keptinfmall parcels; they fellftore 

 wethers two and three years old, at 16s. to 20s. 

 in June or July. Wool about 3 to a Hone. 

 The price of wool 16s. but 20 years ago, 12s. 

 No fuch thing as folding. They plough ge- 

 nerally with 4 horfes, and do above \ an acre 

 a day, laying their lands on 6 foot ridges. 

 They give their horfes oats. No cutting ftraw 

 into chaff, and lofe all that of the crops. Hire 

 of a car, a horfe, and a driver, is. 4d. In 

 hiring and flocking a farm, they reckon a 

 year's rent necefTary; if they have lefs, they 

 never know whether they are to fink or fwim. 



Land fells at 21 years purchafe ; not quite 

 fo well as it did 5 or 6 years ago, the rents fal- 

 len fince March 177$, a feventh. County cefs 

 not a fhilling an acre. Tythes compounded 

 generally, wheat 8s. bere 7s. barley 7s. oats 4s. 

 mowing ground 4s. peafe 4s. No manufac- 

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