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ture. This is the cafe all the way to Newry* 

 alfo to Monaghan, but in that county the 

 farms are fomewhat larger. Towards Lur- 

 gan, Dungannon, and Stewart' s-town, much 

 the fame. Rents around Armagh are from 7s. 

 to 1 5s. Much mountain let in grofs by town- 

 lands not meafured -, average 10s. The whole 

 county much lower. To Newry 10s. To 

 Dungannon us. To Lurgan 10s. The ma- 

 nufacturers, under-tenants on the church- 

 lands, have leafes of 14 years; on other lands 

 3 lives, which make a vifible difference in 

 culture. A manufacturer who has 10 acres 

 will keep 2 cows and a horfe, a pig, but not 

 much poultry ; he will fow 1 1 or 2 bolls of 

 oats on 3 acres — a bufhel, or 1% of flax- feed 

 on a rood or a rood and a half, and half an 

 acre of potatoes, or as much as he can dung, 

 His courfe is: 



r. Potatoes. 2. Flax. 3. Oats, and let it 

 then lay for pafture, not fowing in general any 

 graffes — - fome of them a little clover; the 

 benefit of which is very great. When his foil 

 grows up and marries, he univerfally divides 

 his farm with him, building a new mud cabbin : 

 thus farms are conftantly growing lefs and 

 lefs. This is found very hurtful, by reducing, 

 them fo low that they will not fupply the 

 people with neceffaries. Scarce any of them 

 have potatoes and oats to feed their families > 

 great importations from Louth, Meath, Mo- 

 naghan, Cavan, and Tyrone, belides what 

 comes occafionally from England and Scotland. 



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