72 COOLMQRE. 



In bringing in furzy wafte land he has 

 improved very extenfively. One inftance in 

 particular I fhall mention, becaufe it, is thp 

 beft preparation for laying land to grafs that 

 I have met with in Ireland : he firft dug 

 it and put in potatoes, no manure, the crop 

 middling j and after that cleared it of (tones, 

 which were in great numbers, and fowed tur- 

 nips, of which crop the following are thp 

 particulars. 



" In November 1771, the Rev. Archdeacon 

 John Oliver (at his refidence in the county of 

 Corke) began to cultivate a field for turnips 

 and cabbages ; the field contained about 40 

 Englifh acres, but was fo full of rocks that 

 only about ten or eleven plantation acres 

 could be tilled, the remainder being a lime- 

 ftone quarry j the furface in the part tilled, 

 in general, not above four inches deep, and 

 in the deepeft part not above twelve inches 

 over the lime- (lone quarry ; this ground was 

 planted with potatoes the fpring preceding, 

 without any manure, and all done yvith the 

 fpade, and in many parts there was not 

 fufHcient covering for them. The plough- 

 ing for turnips and cabbages was finifhed 

 the latter end of December ; it remained in 

 that flate till the month of March following 

 (1772,) when a large quantity of ftones were 

 taken out with crows and fpades; it was 

 then ploughed a fecond time, then har- 

 rowed with very ftrong harrows made on 

 purpofe ; about the latter end of May it was 



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