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By Charles Coote, Royal
Dublin Society

Published 1804
Printed by Graisberry
and Campbell

Agriculture

428 pages

Original from Harvard University

Digitized Dec 19, 2007

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GEOGRAPHICAL sTATE AND MODERN CIRCUMsTANCEs	1
glebe, Lisnadill, Mullavilly
Climate	22
Armagh, Newry canal, Forkhill
CHAP III	130
Lord Rokeby, thatched, neat
CHAP IV	136
Armagh, manu, pasturage for young
Rent	141
Tithe, freehold, linen
Prices of Implements	147
ARMAGH, inclosure, cider

PART	160
Sect, tillage, Dublin
Mode of Culture _	167
manure, potatoes, flax
CHAP VIII	217
black cattle, jobbers, Fermanagh
General Prices	223
Newry, guineas, March 28
CHAP IX	232
cess, SECT, shilling per
SECTs 9 10 11 General size of Fields	235
Statistical Survey, compost, velings
CHAP X	245
post town, three guineas, flax
State of Tithe its general amount	257
Average tithe, parishes, per acre
Use of Beer and Spiritswhether	258
turnpike road, regu, manu
State of Education Schools	274
harrow, Plantations
Premiums adjudged by the Dublin	280
want of Industry, shilling per acre, linen manufacture
SECTs 30 31 Weights and Measures liquid	285
Berkshire, guinea, cattle
SECTs 78 Poultry Pigeoiis ibid	296
Newry canal, bawne, Lord Rokeby

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