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furrow very {hallow, and burn it : they never 

 feed it. The crop of feed 8 barrels, at 16 ft. 

 at from 7s. 6d. to 18s. a barrel, generally from 

 14s. to 17s. It is prefied into oil at the mills 

 of fix mile bridge and Scariff, near Killaloe; 

 but the greateft part is bought up by the mer- 

 chants of Limerick for exportation for Hol- 

 land, and laft year fome part of it has been 

 lent to Great Britain, in confequence of the 

 acl which pafTed laft ieilions. The rape cakes 

 are all exported to England for manure : the 

 price of them at 45s. or 42s. per ton. The 

 rape and the bean ftraw are burnt to allies for 

 the foap boilers ; and Mr. Singleton has a kiln 

 contrived on purpofe for burning lime with it, 

 collecting the afhes at the fame time that the 

 lime is burnt. No clover is fown, except by 

 Sir Lucius O'Brien. Flax is fown in fmall 

 quantities by the poor people for their own 

 confumption ; and fome yarn fold, but not 

 much from the whole county. Spinning is by 

 no means general ; not half the women fpin. 

 Some linens, handle cloths, and Clare dowlas, 

 for exportation in fmall quantities, and other 

 forts, enough for home confumption. Wool 

 is ipun for cloathing for the people, into 

 worfted yarn for ferges, and into yarn for 

 ftockings. Great quantities of frizes are fold 

 out of the country. 



Much heath wafte land, many hundreds of 

 acres every year are brought in by paring and 

 burning for rape, but ufe no manure for it j 

 after that wheat, and get good crops, and 



then 



