ANNSGROVE, 9 



jos the Engliih acre. In Carbery, there are 

 great quantities of wild country, and much 

 uncultivated ; provifions are extravagantly 

 cheap, from want of communications. The 

 whole county, upon an average, 73. The 

 courfe of crops about Annfgrove : 



i. Potatoes, 2. Wheat. 3. Oats. 4. Oats, 

 r. Oats. 6. Oats. 7. Leave it for three years. 



i. Potatoes. 2. Bere. 3. Oats. 4. Oats, 

 5. Oats. 6. Oats. 7. Leave it for three or 

 four years. 



Flax fowri in patches upon lay, and fome- 

 times after potatoes. Potatoes they plant in a 

 mod flovenly manner, leaving the iinali ones 

 in the ground of the firft crop, in order to be 

 feed for the fecond, by which means they are 

 not fliced: fometimes a (harp froit catches 

 them, and deftroys all thefe roots. They plant 

 many on grafs without dung, on the rich land, 

 and pay 255. to 508. an acre for liberty to do 

 it. Of wheat they fow 20 flone per acre, and 

 get on an average 7 barrels. They feldom 

 ibw it till February ; they think the tirft dark 

 nights in that month the bed feed time in the 

 year. But it is in facl: owing to their taking 

 their potatoes up fo late, which they do not 

 begin till near Chriflmas. Some, however, are 

 earlier, and get their wheat in in November 

 and December. They fow, of oats, a kilder- 

 {dn, or 4 bulhels of 32 gallons. Neither 

 peafe, beans, nor rape in the country, but tur- 

 nips and clover are creeping in among gentle- 

 men. 



