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ting large crops of potatoes, without any additional 

 manure. To anfwer this end moft effectually, the beft 

 fcafon to plough in the lime is July or Auguft, and let 

 the land remain in that ftate till fpring, when it (hould 

 be ploughed again, and well harrowed, the better to 

 mix the lime effectually. 



The practice of burning moory foils, and rich black 

 bog, is univerfal throughout the county, nor did I ever 

 hear of any caufe of regret from purfuing this fyftem, 

 which in this county is very ancient. Excellent crops 

 of potatoes are generally procured by this mode, and 

 that frequently without any other additional manure. 

 Dung and comport, however, are mod frequently mix- 

 ed with the a fh.es, and fometimes lime, as, in this cafe, 

 corn crops are certain to fucceed after potatoes, at leaft 

 One good crop, which would be found uncertain, had 

 the potatoe crop depended upon the afhes alone. 



No manure operates more powerfully the firft feafon 

 than aflies, nor is there any fpecies of manure lefs 

 abiding. 



Manuring meadows by irrigation or watering, is 

 finding way faft through many parts of the county. 

 From the trials, which have been already made, and 

 the great benefits refulting from them, there Is every 

 reafon to hope, that this falutary fyftem will fhortly 

 become general. 



Confidering how rich this county is in limeftone, yet 

 lime, as a manure, is upon a limited fcale. Binding 



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