NEW GROVE. 3f 



mere improvement was profitable, befides the 

 increafe of rent alfo improved. At Carrick- 

 duff, 650 acres of heath, &c.the black foil thin, 

 and the heath low, and under it a brown loam, 

 with whitifh gravel, mixed. Fallowed it with 

 ftrong ploughs, fourteen inches deep for a year; 

 then limed it, 50 barrels an acre, at feven 

 pence three farthings on the land, burnt on the 

 fpot, and upon this fowed oats and clover for 

 a meadow, the oats great, and the grafs part 

 of it actually let at il. is. and all would let 

 fo. Has profecuted this improvement with 

 fuch fpirit, that laft year he laid on 10,000 

 barrels of lime, and has 73 acres oats, 34 wheat, 

 12 potatoes, and 100 laid to grafs, and all this 

 in two years. Has there built a farm-office, 

 1 54 feet long, a barn, flails for thirty bullocks, 

 two ftables, and a room for the fteward ; and 

 has made 1750 perch of ditches, planted with 

 quicks. Thefe Mr. Gordon does in two years, 

 half the ditch in one to leave it to fink, and the 

 other half the year after. Turnips he has had, 

 and got very fine crops of 61b. the average tur- 

 nip; they thin them by hand, which he thinks 

 upon this land is preferable to hoeing ; ufed 

 the crop in ftall-feeding 30 bullocks, which 

 had, befides the turnips, half a hundredweight 

 of hay to fix each day, and found that they 

 throve exceedingly well on fuch turnips as 

 were not above three to fix pounds weight, 

 but upon the large ones they did not thrive. 

 In November he cleared the field of all, ftacked 

 them, and found them keep perfe&ly till April. 

 Found that the flieep, fed at New Grove, 

 would not take to turnips till flarved to them. 



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