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Sir Lucius O'Brien introduced me to two of 

 the moll confiderable graziers in the county, 

 Mr. Singleton, and Mr. Fitzgerald, and rode 

 through a part of their farms,. Mr. Singleton's 

 corkafs meadows were one continued bed of 

 rufhes, till he deftroyed them by a method 

 which alone proved effectual, which is digging 

 up the rufh, and turning it topfy-turvy into 

 the hole again, this he finds effectually deflroys 

 them, and the expenle is not ib great as might 

 be imagined. This gentleman has more tillage- 

 land than common upon grazing farms ; he 

 fhewed me a haggard, well filled with wheat 

 flacks ; feventeen acres of that grain yielded 

 him 196 barrels. Mr. Fitzgerald is a very at- 

 tentive farmer, and in feveral particulars, con- 

 ducts his bufmefs upon principles different from 

 thofe which are common in Ireland. He has 

 built excellent farming-offices ; particularly a 

 barn, exceedingly well contrived; the corn 

 may be thrown at once from the part of the 

 barn where it is flowed on to two threfhing 

 floors, the one over another, and from the 

 flacks through a window into the barn. His 

 hay is aifo thrown in the fame manner, down 

 into the cow-houfe, and his potatoes into a 

 vault. Thefe conveniencies, which are a great 

 faving of labour, are gained by the buildings 

 being raifed on the fide of a fleep hill, cut 

 away for the purpofe. His cows he keeps in 

 the houfe all winter, by which means they are 

 better wintered, and he raifes a great quantity 



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