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A man, his wife, and four children, will cat 

 a bufhel of 3 cwt, every week : in 39 weeks, 

 therefore, they eat 117 cwt. or 5 ton, 17 cwt. 

 this is juit half an acre for a family. Of oat- 

 meal, the common allowance is a quart of oat- 

 meal a day for a labourer. A mower that is 

 fed is allowed that quantity, and 6 quarts of 

 butter milk a day, or as much bonny clobber. 

 To explain what this is I muft obferve, that 

 they fet the milk three days for the cream to 

 rife, and having then flammed it, the milk that 

 remains is as thick as biamange, and as four as 

 vinegar, and this is bonny clobber. 



Of barley they fow 6 pecks, each 2 1 quarts, 

 and the crop is generally from 20 to 30 fold, 

 or at 25 it is 1 50 pecks. Of oats they fow a 

 barrel of 24 ftone per acre, and they get 6 fnch 

 barrels. Of flax they fow 40 gallons, and it 

 will fell in common on the foot at 81. they find 

 that it enriches the land. No wheat fown but 

 by gentlemen for their own confumption. They 

 burn their com, inflead of thre firing tt. The 

 grazing fyftem is generally the fuccefTion, buy- 

 ing in at year olds, or if the lands are very bad, 

 two year olds; keep them till four year olds, 

 and then fell them lean at Ballinailoe. They 

 give ics. 6d. to 3I. 10s. for yearlings ; average 

 40s. For two-year olds, they give 3I. They 

 fell for 61. what they gave 2I. and for thofe 

 they gave 3I. they will fell at four-year olds 

 for 61. They keep but few fheep, but general- 

 ly buy year-old wethers ; hoggerih in May, at 

 8s. to 1 os. each, fhear them and turn to the 



mountains ; 



