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xvhich is the ftalks withering, and the crop 

 being ready to take up, from a month to fix 

 weeks before any other fort; confequently, 

 the beft fort to plant as a preparative to wheat. 

 Hops he has planted two years ago, in order to 

 fee how far they will anfwer; and expects to be 

 able to get not only good hops, but a great crop. 

 One mode of managing them he has in medita- 

 tion, which is a good thought, and that is to 

 train them horizontally inftead of perpendicu- 

 larly, like efpalier, on account of the ftorms 

 and blights which hops, in the common way, 

 are fubjecl: to from the height. Has compared 

 the rotton lime-ftone and lime in a 20 acred 

 field for wheat, 10 of the one and 10 of the 

 other, and found the wheat equal : both very 

 good. Has obferved the common farmers, af- 

 ter manuring with it, to take 12 and 14 crops 

 of white corn running and then leaving it for 

 grafs, which not coming, they complain that it 

 is not good for grafs, but burns it up. But 

 Lord Doneraile advifed a friend to lay down, 

 after two or three crops, which being done, 

 the grafs that followed was perfectly fine. 



Lord Doneraile's lime- kiln is one of the com- 

 pleateft I have any where ieen ; it is at bottom 

 16 inches diameter, leads up to 12 feet wide in 

 the buldge, and 20 feet high from the bottom 

 to the baldge, 7 feet from the buldge up, and 

 at the top 9 feet diameter. Over the top, a 

 roof and a porch to it, and it draws 44 barrels 

 of roach lime a day, which takes 6 of culm ; 

 turns for 5^ a barrel. The culm 2s. 5d. a 



barrel 



