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and a half per acre the year through, which 

 will pay i 2s. Upon worfe land they go into 

 the fucceffion fyflem, which is buying year 

 olds at 25s. on an average: thefe, as well as 

 the preceding for cattle, which at 4 year old 

 come to 5 cwt. which is the common llze of 

 the county. He keeps them 3 years, and felling 

 them lean at 4I. ics. but thefe fyftems are al- 

 ways united on the fame farm, as they have all 

 forts of cattle to fuit different foils. No dairies. 



The fheep fyftem is not of confequence, for 

 there are fcarce any flocks kept. Twenty years 

 ago the baronies of Corra and Terrera were 

 continued iheep-w T alks -, but now the former is 

 all potatoes and barley, and much of the lat- 

 ter is broken up, fo that upon the whole tillage 

 has gained very much on grafs. The fheep 

 there kept are both fattening and breeding; 

 they keep their lambs till three year wethers, 

 and fell them fat at 16s. that is, 1 81b. a quarter, 

 at cd. a lb. The ewe lambs will be kept, and 

 old ewes culled and fold off half fat, at ios» 

 The fleeces on the average of the whole will be 

 4 lb. Mr. Ormfby gets 8 and 10 lb. from his 

 wethers. Swine increafirig, no pork exported 

 from Sligo till laft year, but now they are get- 

 ting into it. Horfes are ufed for tillage only, 

 4 in a plough abreaft, and forne harrowing ftill 

 done by the tail-, they will plough half an 

 an acre a day, or more commonly three days to 

 an acre. Upon wet lands they plough into 

 ridges arched, but never water furrow. They 

 know nothing of cutting chaff, but let the wind 

 blow that of their crops away. As to hiring 



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