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cattle of all ages are usually kept. The following is a summary 
of the horned stock, taken in March 1877 : — 
2 Pedigree Shorthorn bulls. 
24 Cows. Milkers in byre. 
5 Cows kept for the ploughmen and gardeners. 
23 Yearlings. 
29 Two- and three-vear-okls. 
9 Calves. 
10 Stall-fed fat beasts, sold 7th April for 240?. 
2 Four-year-old ploughing oxen at Mullaghglass. 
3 „ „ Tooreena. 
7 Two-year-old heifers. 
5 Three-year „ 
6 Kyloe cows. 
3 „ calves. 
6 ,, three-year-old heifers, 
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There are three breeding flocks of black-faced sheep. The 
wethers are sold or killed at 3 years old. Ninety-six sheep, 
killed between 9th August, 1876, and 12th March, 1877, for 
home consumption, weighed 4399 lbs. The total head of sheep 
kept is usually about 1000. About 20 pigs are kept. 
By the diversion of the Addergoole stream a fall has been 
obtained of from 11 to 14 feet; this is utilised by a turbine- 
wheel, supplying from 8 to 14 horse-power for a circular saw,, 
and for threshing and other farm-work. This power has alsa 
been applied to some experiments in compressing peat for fuel, 
but hitherto without much success. The turf is dug by contract, 
at 8s. per clamp, of 8 X 8 X 8 feet, measured in the clamps. 
In digging the turf a series of large tanks are being formed ; 
these will increase the head of water for the turbine. A building 
has been prepared to receive one of Gibbs' Corn and Hay- 
Driers ; in no district would the advantages of such an apparatus 
be more apparent. 
The township of Bunnaboghee is almost all of it deep peat, 
with a ridge of limestone running down the centre. It is 
intended to reclaim 100 acres here. As a first step towards 
this the lines of a few of the drains have been marked out, and 
permission has been given to some of the neighbouring peasants 
to dig the peat to a depth of 4 feet in these lines. If the drains 
can be cut in this way for the value of the peat, it will, of 
course, be a great saving of expense ; but the experiment has 
only just been started, and the men have not yet given it a full 
trial. The difficulty is that a drain often requires to be run 
through peat of an inferior quality, or hard to cut. 
Dowrosmore is occupied by thirteen tenants, who are re- 
claiming portions of the waste by their own labour. Their 
