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SECT. 4. INFERIOR ARABLE SOILS. This class embraces 

 land more elevated than the preceding classes, not 

 adapted for the growth of wheat, nor producing good 

 crops of any grain. 



LA. 1. Cold heavy clay soils, hard to labour and un- 

 productive. 

 Shallow soils, imperfectly mixed, deficient in 



some of the principal ingredients. 

 Soils requiring rest in grass during half the 



period of a suitable rotation. 



I. A. 2. Poor gravelly soils, greedy of manure ; very 

 tenacious clays, rocky, or with bad subsoil. 

 I. A. 3. Sterile, shallow, hard to labour, scarcely worth 

 cultivation. 



HI. ON THE VALUATION CLASSES OF GRASS LAND. 



The order of grass land comprehends all lands growing 

 permanent grass, either for cutting or pasture. Lands 

 sown with grass seed, or allowed to clothe themselves 

 with natural verdure, on an arable farm where alternate 

 husbandry is practised, are not included, as they belong 

 to, and must be valued as arable land. But wherever, 

 either naturally or artificially, the land is found under 

 grass in a permanent state, it must be described and 

 classified accordingly. 



This description of land occupies a vast extent of the 

 surface of Ireland, and exhibits necessarily a wide range 

 of value, from the wild morasses of the almost inaccessible 

 mountain heights, to the fine fattening plains of our richest 

 limestone districts. Its varieties depend not only on the 

 soil and subsoil, but very much on the condition of the 

 land as to drainage, and much also on its situation and 

 elevation. For valuation purposes, it may be subdivided 

 into the following classes, viz. : 



1. Extra Class. Comprehending meadows naturally or 

 artificially irrigated, or pasture so situated as to 

 possess rare advantages. 



