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cut down on the 6th, and led in on the i8th. Near a 

 half of ail the potatoes in the country were dcftroyed by 

 froft, and a great proportion of the oats rendered unfit 

 either for meal or feed. Many heated ftacks. The wheat 

 feed, however, was got pretty well through in the courfe 

 of this month, and in tolerable good order. 



December. 



Began with hard froft, and was froft and frefli by turns 

 during the whole month. The wheat feed finilhed by 

 the end of the month in very good condition, there be- 

 ing no fnow in the low part of the county. 



Weather Regijler c?i the fame Farm during the Year 1799. 



January. 



In general, mild frefli weather, with fome heavy winds 

 from the weft, only feven days rain in all, but fome hard 

 froft in the end of the mouth. Labour carried on pretty 

 well. 



February. 

 The firft eight days hard froft tliroughout. On the 

 night between the 8th and 9th, a ftorm of fnow came 

 on from the S. E., which lafted with unremitting vio- 

 lence for twelve hours. It was utterly impoflible to do 

 any work .in the fields, hardly pra61:icable even within 

 doors, as the fnow drifted through every thing. Many 

 fneep fmothered in the fnow. From this to the i6th, 

 frefli and froft alternately j and from thence to the end, 

 in general mild frefli weather, and the ploughing going 

 on brifkly. 



March. 



The firft twenty days in general mild frefli Vv^eatber, 



and a great deal of work done, particularly in the oats 



feedy which was nearly finiflied during this period. From 



the 20th to the 28th, exceeding cold damp weather. The 



laft three days heavy fnow and hard froib 



Jpril. 



