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September 22d, left Corke, and proceeded 

 to Coolmore, the feat of the Rev. Archdeacon 

 Oliver, who is the capital farmer of all this 

 neighbourhood ; no perfon could be more 

 defirous of procuring me the information I 

 wifhed, nor any more able to give it me. Mr. 

 Oliver began the culture of turnips four 

 years ago, and found them fo profitable that 

 he has every year had a field of them in the 

 broad-carl: method, and well hoed. This year 

 they are exceedingly fine, clean, and well 

 hoed, fo that they would be no difgrace to a 

 Norfolk farmer. This is the great objecl: 

 wanting in Irifh tillage ; a gentleman, there- 

 fore, who makes fo confiderable a progrefs in it, 

 ac~ls in a manner the moil deferving praife 

 that the whole circle of his hufbandry will 

 admit. Mr. Oliver has ufually drawn his 

 crops for fheep and black cattle; for the 

 former he has fpread them upon grafs fields 

 to their very great improvement ; and the 

 cattle have had them given in flails. All. forts 

 have done perfectly well on them, infomuch 

 that he is fully convinced of their great 

 importance: he has found that they fupport 

 the cattle much better than any thing elfe, 

 to fuch a degree of fuperiority, he is deter- 

 mined never to be without a crop. He has 

 always dunged for them, except when he has 

 ploughed up a grafs lay, and then he has 

 found it not necefTary. 



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