KILLARNEY. 



but the grafs had with that the fame effect as 

 the lucerne. 



Mr. Herbert has cultivated potatoes in the 

 common lazy-bed method, upon an extenfive 

 fcale, and he is convinced, from repeated ex- 

 perience, that there is no way in the world of 

 managing that root that equals it, efpecially 

 for bringing in wafte lands. It has been with 

 the greateft furprife that he has read this mode 

 condemned by feveral Engliih writers j when 

 properly executed, it mixes the land and the 

 manure, and by taking two crops fucceffively, 

 and digging them out, if all the land is ftirred, 

 it leaves it in admirable order for a fucceffive 

 crop of any kind. 



Folding iheep Mr. Herbert praftifes by- 

 means of a contrivance of his own ; inftead 

 of hurdles, a pole 12 feet long, and 5 inch 

 diameter, ftruck through with perpendiculars, 

 and having at each end two longer pieces to reft 

 on, in form of a crofs : thofe are moveable, 

 and eafily fet in rows. He pens the fheep on 

 his grafs lands, and finds the effecl wonderful, 

 nothing equalling them for manuring the land, 

 and at a very fmall expence. Is clearly of 

 opinion, that nothing would be a greater im- 

 provement to Ireland than introducing the 

 practice generally. 



An obfervation which Mr. Herbert has made 

 on mowing land is highly deferving attention : 

 it is, that land ought always to be mowed, though 



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