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aQies and p-ravel, ploughed it in, fowinir rape on it, which (lood 

 for a crop, and turned out tolerably well. The next winter it was 

 limed, about 160 barrels to the acre, ploughed in, and a crop of 

 oats Ibwn, which had a great return of llraw, but litjile grain, bemq^ 

 too rank, and the land on too expofed a hill for it to ripen well. 

 I purfued the fame courfe with it in ploughing and liming, but let 

 out to grafs with rye grafs-feed, fowing the land with rape, which 

 I found to afford (lieltcr and fhade to the young grafs ; then turned 

 in my flieep to eat it down. This mode I prefer to letting the rape 

 ftand for feed, or to fowing corn, as the crops do not pay in an ex- 

 pofed lituation, near as much as the rape in feeding from five to 

 ten (beep to the acre all the fummer, and the grafs-rieeds doing 

 much better by the manure of the (beep, inflead of the land being 

 exhaufted by a crop. Mr Carroll has had this land live years on 

 his hands, draws limeflone up the mountain a quarter of a mile to 

 two lime-kilns, which I built a-breaft, to turn out about fifty bar- 

 rels in twenty-four hours. They have been always kept burning 

 fince the year 1792, except about four of the winter months. I 

 am happy to fay Mr Carroll has almofl completed the improve- 

 ments, and 1 hope it will, with other hills of the fame nature 

 which he has improved in the county of Tipperary, remain an ad- 

 vanta8;e to his poilerity, and a monument of his meritorious in- 

 duftry.' 



In the account of the mode of culture pradifed in the arable 

 part of the county, we difcover that the fyftem adopted is radical- 

 ly wrong, too much being devoted to the plough, and too little 

 attention generally paid to the management of live flock. Thefe 

 two branches of rural economy are not made fubfervient to each 

 other, which, in every jufl fyftem, ought certainly to be the cafe. 

 Upon tillage-farms, the grovv'th of wheat appears to be the fole 

 objecl in view, while, in dairy farms, the plough is altogether 

 negle6led, which prevents fuch farms from being fupplied with 

 winter provender. There may be exceptions to every rule ; but, 

 whilq we reprobate incefTant tillage, we are equally hollile to the 

 perpetuation of grafs. By mixing the fyftems, or adopting what 

 is called alternate hufbandry, the greateil pcfTible advantage may 

 be drawn from every kind of foil, and the beil farmer will of 

 courfe be the beft judge how often, and when, the alternation 

 Ibould take place. 



Our fentiments on thefe matters are, in a great meafure, in uni- 

 fon with thofe held by the author of this wprk, v/ho feems a 

 llrong advocate for intermediate crops of green food. An extrad; 

 from the feclion on the mode of culture, will exemplify the opi- 

 nions held by him refpe^ling the imperfeflncfs .of common huf- 

 J)aiidry, 



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