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it implies a portion of land fufficient for a given 

 Itock; for inftance, keeping a cow is a fum ; 

 a horfe a fum and an half ; 8 fheep ; 6 ewes and 

 6 lambs • 3 year olds -, a 2 year old, and a year 

 old; a 3 year old; 20 geefe; a barrel of pota- 

 toes fetting; a peck of rlax fowing; a barrel of 

 corn fowing, and a cow's grafs ; all thefe are 

 fums. They plough all with horfes, except 

 gentlemen, 3 abreait, and do half an acre a 

 day. Drawing by the tail not done thefe 7 

 years. The price per acre 10s. Of digging by 

 the acre 12s. and the crop 10s. an acre more; 

 but they reckon that nothing in the world wears 

 out the land more than digging. They lay their 

 wet lands in narrow ridges of 5 furrows. The 

 horfes get no oats, yet they are not more than 

 from 6s. to 12s. a fack, of 2 barrels meafure; 

 the barrel weighs 9 or 10 ftone. Average price 

 9s. In hiring a little farm, no attention given 

 to w T hat flock they have. Land fells at 2 1 

 years purchafe, rack rent, which is lower than 

 4 or 5 years ago. Rents are fallen in 4 years 

 2S.an acre. Tythes compounded, fmail and 

 great ones, by the lump. The leafes molt com- 

 mon are 3 lives, or 31 years. Tierney bogs are 

 now done with. The people increafe consider- 

 ably, notwithstanding the emigrations, which 

 were great tili within thefe 2 years. Their 

 circumftances vairly improved in 20 years ; they 

 are better fed, cloathed, andhoufed; more fo- 

 berand induftrious in every refpett. Their food 

 is potatoes and oaten bread, and a bit cf beef or 

 bacon for winter. All keep cows, and moft of 

 them pigs, and fome poultry ; many turkeys 



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