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ing a grazing farm, three rents are reckoned 

 to do. Thofe bullocks that are to be fattened 

 the fummer following, they give hay mofr. part 

 of the winter, tfbr four or five months, as 

 much as they will eat, which will be half an 

 acre of good meadow!, 



There are 4000 bullocks fattened annually 

 in the county of Clare ; bought in at 61. and 

 fold out at iol. and 3000 cows, bought in at 

 3I. and fold fat at 5I. alfo 6000 fat wethers, 

 fold out of the county annually at 20s. each. 



This country is famous for cyder-orchards, 

 the cakagee efpecially, which is incomparably 

 fine. An acre of trees yields from four to ten 

 hogfheads per annum, average fix, and what 

 is very uncommon in the cyder counties of 

 England, yield a crop every year. I never be- 

 held trees fo loaden with apples as in Sir Lu- 

 cius O'Brien's orchard ; it amazed me that 

 they did not break under the immenfe load 

 which bowed down the branches. He expect- 

 ed a hogfhead a tree from feveral. 



Land fells at twenty years purchafe. Rents 

 fell in the rearing lands 5s. or 6s. in the pound, 

 but rich lands fell very little. Tythes are 

 compounded by a composition made every year 

 by the piece. Fat bullocks nothing. Sheep, 20s 

 per hundred. Wheat, 5s. Barley 3s. Oats, 2s. 

 Potatoes, 1 os. Middle men, not common, 

 but much land re-let, arifing from the long 

 tenures which are given of three lives, &c. 



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