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acres to 3 or 400 ; but all the large ones are 

 ftock farms ; in general none To high as twenty : 

 all in Rundale, partnership or ftock. Many of 

 the latter part mountain, part arable, andthefe 

 are the only farms of fubftance in the country. 

 One of 8oi. a year will require 4 or 500I. to 

 ftock it. Thefe farmers buy year olds — for in- 

 stance, 20; he buys in 20 year olds every year, 

 and every year fells 20 four year olds: he gives 

 30s. each, and fells at 5I. 10s. or 61. and this he 

 reckons a reafonable profit. Alfo 3 and 2 year 

 old heifers that have miffed the bull, keep them 

 through the winter, and fell them in May, and 

 get 1 8s. to 20s. for wintering them on coarfe 

 grafs without any fodder. In fumrner they feed 

 them all on mountains. Thofe who buy the 

 mift heifers are farmers in Monaghan and Ca- 

 van, on coarfe farms, who turn them on the 

 mountains, give them the bull, and fell them 

 out in the fpring to the weaving farmers in the 

 linen country, who change their ftock. 



The meafures here are by pecks and barrels; 

 the weight of the peck of potatoes in Bally- 

 fhannon is 5 ftone, 41b. and 10 pecks, make a 

 barrel : in the country they give 6 ftoncs. The 

 acre the plantation meafure. Of potatoes, which 

 they fet all in the trenching way, they plant 4 

 barrels an acre, and get on an average 7 or 8 

 for one, that is, 32 barrels an acre. The price 

 is 8s. a barrel on a medium, or 1 2I. 1 6s. an acre; 

 but it is obvious that this peck is a meafure of 

 their own. They manure generally for them 

 w r ith dung; but often with lime and bog mud 

 mixed, and burnt clay, which they find does 



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