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then two, three, or four crops of oats, good 

 ones ; then left for grafs, and comes tolerable 

 herbage, worth 5 s. an acre. 



The principal grazing fyftem confifts in a 

 union of both rearing and fattening ; the rearing 

 farms generally at a confiderable diftance from 

 the rich lands on the Fergus and Shannon. 

 The moft profitable management of grazing, 

 is to buy in year-olds upon this fyftem, but it 

 can only be done, by hewing a variety of land, 

 commonly at a diftance. It is found much 

 more beneficial than buying in bullocks in 

 autumn, and cows in May, as the Meath gra- 

 ziers do. 



The average price of the year-olds, is from 

 2I. 2s. to 2I. 1 os. and the price fold at four and 

 a half year-olds, weighing 41 cwt. 44, to 5* 

 cwt. is on an average at 81. For cows bought 

 in in May, 3I. 3s. to 3I. 1 2s. and fell at 5I. 1 os. 

 An acre of the co reals land will fatten one of 

 thefe bullocks, but then it muft not be win- 

 ter-fed at all. Sheep, on an average, fhear 

 three to a ftone of 1 61b. and fell at is. per. 

 lb. Mr. Macnamara fold this year $5 bags, 

 befides his lambs wool ; the weight is from fix 

 hundred, to feven and a half, fifty ftone, and 

 this year's price 17s. 6d. a ftone. Upon the 

 Jime-ftone fheep-walks of this county, they 

 keep from one and a half to five j on an ave- 

 rage, three. The lofs on ftock-fheep, bul- 

 locks, &c. will not amount to more than one 

 percent, on the v&lue. For hiring and flock- 

 ing 



