48 CASTLEMARTYR. 



Norfolk was three feet eight inches in circum- 

 ference. N. B. I neither manured nor burned 

 the ground; it was naturally goodj I tilled it 

 well, and hoed the crop, carefully. 



SHANNON. 



One of the above turnips Lord Shannon took 

 with him to the Dublin Society, where it was 

 feen by the whole city; but from my tour 

 through the kingdom, I am afraid it did not 

 animate fo many as it ought. Thefe large 

 turnips were not raifed in any peculiar fpot, 

 but were part of a field of eight or ten acres. 

 The application of the crop has been generally 

 by drawing and giving them to fheep on dry 

 paftures; all forts of fheep, but particularly fat 

 ewes, they fattened admirably. Finds that the 

 great benefit of the culture is having them near 

 a very dry field, in order to manage them as 

 above-mentioned. He has found that they will 

 do exceedingly well without manuring, efpeci- 

 ally if the land is an old rough pafture, or which 

 wants to be broken up ; fallowed well and tho- 

 roughly ploughed, produces great crops. Sea- 

 weed his lordfhip has tried for them, fpread 

 about the thicknefs of dung, and it gave pro- 

 digious produces. Upon the whole, he is clear- 

 ly of opinion, that nothing can be more bene- 

 ficial to the agriculture of Ireland than intro- 

 ducing this culture, and fo well convinced of 

 this, that he has always fhewn his crops to far- 

 mers, weighed them before them, fhewed the 



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