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way to improve, though contrary to an abfurd 

 ad of parliament againft it. 



Lime they ufe in very fmall quantities, and 

 no wonder, for it is the Sutton ftone they 

 bring from the hill of Howth to Wicklow, 

 where it is burnt, and the common farmers 

 bring it from thence at the expenfe of 2s. 6d. 

 the ftatute barrel of 32 gallons. They lay 

 from 20 to 60 on an acre, chiefly on moun- 

 tain ground. Grey marie, with lime-ftone 

 gravel in ftrata, abound all over tie country, 

 with other ftrata of fand, all which have an 

 efFervefcence with acids, and in digging they 

 mix together, and prove of infinite benefit to 

 their fields. 



Very few dairies, fo that they make fcarce 

 any butter. Their cows are fubfervient to 

 their lamb fuckling, and leave them free only 

 in fummer, when they fat calves for Dublin 

 market. Four or five quarts of milk at a meal 

 is the common quantity. In the winter they 

 have hay, but only in hard weather. No 

 grazing of oxen. As to fheep their fyftem is 

 particular • it is all fuckling lambs for Dublin 

 market. 



General Cunninghame carried me to a far- 

 mer who is reckoned the moll able in that 

 bufinefs of any in the country, and the fol- 

 lowing is the account he gave me of his ma- 

 nagement. He breeds his own lambs, from a 

 ftock partly bought in every year. The rams 

 he puts to the ewes the middle of May, in 



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