IRISH FARMING IN 1884.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sm,—Badly as the agriculturalist has fared in Ireland for the last twelve months, the grazier has fared worse. Let me give one example of how grazing paid in 1884. In a West-Central pastoral county, a gentleman had a herd of cattle last May, for which he had not grass on his own lands. He was then offered £15 per head for the lot, and refused it. He took grazing for them at 52s. 6d. per head for six months, and sold them at the end of October for 214 15s. a-piece. Similar facts are to be met on every hand, and it is common to hear that the rule of loss applies to the first half of the year, as well as to the second. Many farmers have no return for the last twelve months' feeding, and not a few are unable to realise the prices they could. have got twelve months ago.—I am, Sir, &c., J. W. R. C.
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