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then either fow oats, or plant potatoes, and this 

 perfectly kills all the heath, {erica vulgaris) and 

 makes very fine land after it. Upon dry heathy- 

 ground at Ballyconhel, Mr. Swan, Lord Farn- 

 liam's manager, has feen heaps of lime-ftone laid 

 on the heath near kilns, and has remarked that 

 where this ftone was laid without, burning or 

 breaking, there the heath was completely kill- 

 ed, and a full crop of white clover (trifolimnre^ 

 fiensjczme up, from the dull" that had rubbed off; 

 a ftrong proof that pounded lime-ftone would 

 be an admirable manure. The flock farmers, 

 who, however, are not large ones, -i.§o acres be- 

 ing a good farm, are many of them in the fuc- 

 c'effion bufinefs of buying in young cattle, and 

 fejling them out older without fattening ; others 

 on better lands, buy in dry cows in May, and 

 fell them fat in November, making from 30s. 

 to 40s. a head. But few fat bullocks, nor is it 

 a great fheep country, nor any dairies; but all 

 the little farmers and cottars, keep one, two, 

 or three. If they pay for. grazing a cow, it is 

 20s. to 30s. They keep alio many pigs, from 

 one to five, in every houfe. They plough all 

 with horfes three or four in a plough, and all 

 abreaft. Here let it be remarked, that they very 

 commonly plough and harrow -with their horfes 

 DRAWINQ bt JUK tail i it is_done every fea- 

 fon. Nothing can put them befide this, and 

 they iniift, that take a horfe.tired in traces, and 

 put him to work by, $he tail, he will draw bet- 

 ter : quite frefh again. 1 ., Indignant reader ! this 

 ie no jeft of mine, but cruel, ftubbom, barba- 

 rous truth. It is fo all over Cavan. 



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