Connecticut western news., 1882-03-01

celebrated Protestant churches indebted to them for funds. A distiller gave 920, 900 and brewer G10,O00 to assist in building an Episcopal cathedral in Cork. It is said to have cost Guinness, the great brewer, 9200,0 to remodel St. Patrick's Episcopal Church in Dub- lin and to build the appurtenant houses. To return to my farmer, Collins, in whose house I saw no ointoxicating liquor drank. He rented seventy acres. of which twenty were bog, nearly worth. less. Oollins's rent is G34, or about $170. He has slate rooted his house and greatly improved 1t. He has also built stone stable and 8 dairy, with slate roofs. The landlord gave him almost nothing toward these improve ments, not even the flooring of the loft. The stone Collins got off the place. When he came here the walls of the farm were mostly of clay or mud, and he has built stone ones. In this neigh borhood the wall$ are mostly built of stone. In some cases they are covered with earth, and grass and other plants are growing on tn em. "These walls, !" said to him, ''must take up a great deal of room. That one beside your house is yard across the top"
 Collins's rent is under $l70. Land sold in fee simple, apparently rare thing, generally brings twenty times the annual rental. Yet, as lawyer in Cork informed me, the average value here now, under present depressing circum- stances, is not over $75 per acre.
 have spoken of some of Collins's land as of inferior quality. His report of the produce, therefore infer, is not the average crop. He says that on this land wheat ought to bring 15 cwt. per acre, the cwt of 112 pounds. On land of the best quality in good years wheat is expected to bring 25 cwt. In this soil of Collins's oats frequently bring IA owt. to the acre. This land produces about one and half tons of hay and better land about two tons per acre. A patch of potatoes is called potato garden, even if it contain several acres. The manner in which potatoes are planted was strange to my eye. The land if laid out in beds about four feet wiie. Between these beds are deep trenches one and half feet wide. These beds or ridges are made by turning the sods
 in with the blow. There are foul rows of potatoes to bed. These are
 hand weeded, and never hood. The
 people manure heavily as they can fol
 potatoes and then, without additiona
 manure, put the land into wheat. Barn
 yard guano and artificial manures are
 used. On Collins's soil potatoes turl
 out about five tons to the acre. Pota
 toes have degenerated in Ireland bu
 of late a new kind, the Champion, hav
 encouraged the people much. At al
 exposition in Cork in 1880 some farmer claimed to have raised from 13 to |
 tons per acre. '
 Turnips are manured, sowed in drill
 or rows in May and June, thinned hood and hand weeded. They turn ou twelve tons to the acre. Two men cal
 fork out an acre in day, and two mel can top an acre day, leaving the top ,, on the ground.
 Domestic animals sell high for food
 Reeves sometimes weigh 13 and IA cwt
 and bring about e3 per cwt. Good ia
 calves of three months sell for 95. Fla sheep, weighing dressed about 12
 pounds, will bring &3, or near $1t Mrs. Collins had an exceptional pig supposed to be 8 fine bacon pig, lea and fat we'll mixed, or a ''ribbon" ple
 An Irishman is said to have fed his pi one day and starved him the next, ths
 there might be streak of fat and
 streak of lean. That pig of Mrs. Go ins's weighed, when dressed, 1e
 pounds, and she got GA los. for it, ( about 20 cents a pound. In view ( such prices tho saying of my Cork lane lady is not strange: "May the Lord ! Heaven spare us the American mea t It keeps the market within our reach Fruit is not plentiful in countl towns of the County Cork. "The chi dren would pluck gooseberries," was reason given for not having them. 7. certain priest was supposed to ha s strawberries and gooseberries in u Il garden. Probably fruit-loving childr' y did not disturb those of his reverenc When 8 retired lawyer took me into | d garden he unlocked the gate. He h. l. cut down an old orchard and would n ts plant another, because the neighborir " children got at the fruit.
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