1 26 Agricultural Intelligence — Ireland, Feb. 



< The propofcd plan for the manufaftory of improved implements of 

 hufbandry is an eftablifhment anxioufly looked for, as thereby good im- 

 plements may be obtained at reafonable prices. This eftablifhment, 

 which is about to take place immediately, reflefts highly to the honour 

 of the propofer, clearly pointing out the wifdom of tlie meafure, which- 

 has in view the educating, as apprentices, young lads, to be difperfed, 

 when proficients, into the different counties of Ireland, in order to 

 train others ; fo tliat a thorough knowledge of the conftrudlion of 

 good implements may be general — an objeft long wifhed for. 



* Land-ftewardfc, cartwiights, fmiths, ploughmen, particularly from 

 the Loihians, Berwick, and other well cultivated diftrifts, when well 

 -recommended, may be certain of being encouraged, as by good con- 

 du(fl: they mull prove great acquilitions. 



* The fummer was diftinguKhed for unufual drought. The hay crop, 

 though not heavy, was well faved, and will prove, as to quality, more 

 nutritious than thofe of former years. Hay, therefore, will on an aver- 

 2;je fnrnifli as much forag-e as ufual. 



* Potatoes in dry or found ground have been deficient a fourth or 

 fifth of the ufual average ; but, in cold foils, or thofe generally re- 

 dundant with moifture, they are much fuperior to thofe of former 

 years ; infomuch, that, on an average, they are nearly equal to the 

 ufual produce. 



* Turnips have fuff'.'red greatly from the di^nefs of the feafon, though 

 the rains which fell in November mended them fomewhat. Spirited 

 farmers have been much difappointed by an impofition of bad feed of 

 Svvcdifh turnip. This is particularly to be lamented ; as, in the fewr 

 cafes of genuine feed being cultivated, the crops have fucceeded in the 

 happieft manner. A good farmer's feed fhop is much wanted. 



* All the varieties of the cabbage tribe have fuffered much for want 

 ef timely rain. The crops of wheat, barley, and oats were abundant, 

 and harvcftcd in excellent order. 



* The efforts of a few dif<iffc<^ed pcrfons in July caufed a temporary 

 check to agricultural purfuits ; but happily it was of very fnort conti- 

 nuance. The farmers, obferving the weaknefs of the attempt, foon re- 

 newed their attention to rural works. The hopes of fuccefsful rebellion 

 are abandoned, and the pvadlicability of an effeftke French invafion be- 

 come iliufive. The late trials of the infurgents have made a deep im- 

 prclfion on the ntimerous population of this country. 



* The fhows of the farming fociety of Ireland have been peculiarly 

 important, direclliig the attention of the affluent, the great landholder, 

 and the pra<^ical hofbandman, to the Improvement of their poHlflions. 



* In conftquence of the excellence of the foil and climate, the com- 

 parative lowncis of rent, and the increafed length of tenure, an encou- 

 ragement peculiarly ofters for intelligent farmers to fettle here, particu- 

 larly from the well cultivated dillrids in Scotland. Such, with the nc- 

 eeffary recommendations, may with certainty reckon on being well re- 

 ceived, on applying to the Farming Society of Ireland, A^o. 34. Ncju 

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