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management of the cow devolves on the wife ; 

 a duty which is not often neglected. Besides 

 allowing some little indulgence of butter to the 

 family, one hundred and fifty pounds weight, 

 or on an average three pounds weight per week, 

 during the year, is salted for market, where it 

 is worth about six guineas. The butter-milk, 

 assisted by potatoes, furnishes food to the fa- 

 mily. The husband's earnings, in Mr. Wynne's 

 employ, is ten pence a-day throughout the year. 

 I visited several of these cottages, and saw no 

 instance of neglect ; on the contrary, the clean- 

 liness and regularity which prevailed in each 

 family were very pleasing. 



Can the individual satisfaction which must 

 constantly result from the contemplation of a 

 happy and contented peasantry, be less gratify- 

 ing to the benevolent feelings of Mr. Wynne, 

 than it is gratefully acknowledged by his de- 

 pendants? the situation of whom must be en- 

 viable in the highest degree by the wretched 

 cottiers whose miserable lot we have so often 

 deplored. How far this benevolent example 

 may have an effect in the general extension of 

 so laudable an attempt for the melioration of 

 the miserable existence to which the whole 

 rural population of Ireland is at present ex- 

 posed, time alone can determine ; in the 



