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that they will fatten a beaft better. When moft 

 wanted, which is in April and the beginning 

 of May, they are gone. Cabbages he has tried 

 upon a large fcale three years ; laft year and the 

 year before, he had 8 or 9 acres, and ufed them 

 in feeding and fattening cattle and fheep ; has 

 found them preferable to turnips far, in all nfes 

 in feeding cattle j but an acre of the latter will 

 produce much more. Fern he finds is beft de- 

 flroyed by mowing it twice a year in June, 

 and the beginning of September. He makes 

 his tillage exceedingly profitable by the ufe of 

 lime. His courfe of crops, 



i. Wheat, yielding 10 barrels per acre, and 

 has meafured 15 barrels, 15 ftone per acre. 

 2. Barley, the produce 14, 15 barrels, and of 

 fmall barley, 6 rowed 20. 3. Oats 20 barrels. 

 4. Clover laid down to grafs, or for one year, 

 and ploughed it up as foon as cleared of ths 

 hay. 



Lime he fpreads on all lands for wheat or 

 barley, &c. 80 barrels of roach an acre cofts 

 6d. a barrel burning. The effect is amazingly 

 great, infomuch that it is the difference between 

 a great and a bad crop. In general there is 

 no ground worth 2os. an acre, that if you lime 

 it 80 barrels, and take wheat, barley, and oats, 

 it will then be worth 305. This' is certainly a 

 marvellous improvement ! Lord Doneraile 

 knows, from an experiment of his brother's, 

 that it is equally well adapted to boggy bottoms ; 

 he had five acres, 'which he fet for los, 6d, the 



whole. 



