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marie, the better it is. They dairy much 

 here, fome having 20 cows for butter chiefly. 

 It has been a common idea, that one good 

 cow will make 1 cwt. of butter at 42s. and 

 Icwt. of cheefe 25s. and rear her calf. They 

 all keep many pigs, and the more upon ac- 

 count of their dairies. Some calves are fat- 

 tened for Dublin market, one will fuck two 

 cows, and be worth 4I at 3 months old. No 

 large flocks of fheep, but moft of the farmers 

 have a few; generally wethers bought in and 

 fold out every year. Give them hay in bad 

 weather. 3 fleeces to a flone of wool, the 

 prefent price 16s. Between 30 and 40 years 

 ago 3s. a ftone; and 20 years ago 10s. to us. 

 Tillage is performed all with horfes, 4 in a 

 plough, and do half an acre a day. All their 

 chaff is loft in winnowing their corn in the 

 fields. Hire of a car is. In hiring and flock- 

 ing farms, they will take them with fcarce 

 any thing but a few cows and horfes, yet 

 they pay their rents very well, and few of them 

 fail. Land at rack rent, fells at 20 years pur- 

 chafe, but within thefe 10 years 22 or 23. 

 Rents have been riling for 1 5 years : they have 

 not fallen of late years as in other parts of Ire- 

 land, though in fome places are beginning. 



Tythes are valued every year, and the 10th 

 taken as a compofition, wheat at 18s. a bar- 

 rel. Barley 8s. Oats 6s. The 10th lamb 

 2s. 6d. No tea in the labourers cabbins, but 

 in thofe of little farmers they have it, and it 

 increafes much. Leafes generally 3 lives to 

 Proteflants, and 3 1 years to Catholics. The 



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