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the value of the hay will not pay the expence, 

 It is common in Ireland to mow parts of fields 

 that are good, and leave the reft; but he al- 

 ways cuts the whole, and finds the practice 

 very advantageous to the land. 



Some bog this gentleman has improved 

 merely by draining, and then fpreading mold 

 upon it, without tilling or burning, brings it 

 to a meadow as foon as poflible : and this is 

 the method he would, in all cafes, recommend 

 for their improvement, as there is never any ne- 

 cefiity of tillage in order to bring them to grafs. 



Relative to the common hufbandry of this 

 neighbourhood, I found that the foil is divid- 

 ed, between lime-flone and brown-done. The 

 peninfula of Mucrufs is half the one and half 

 the other, the one ending fuddenly where the 

 other begins : the vale alfo to Killarney and 

 beyond is limeftone for the extent of many 

 miles, and in general the mountains are all 

 brown ftone, and the vales lime-ftone. Rents 

 here are about 8s. an acre on an average, in- 

 cluding much indifferent land, but not the 

 mountains. About three-fifths of the county 

 of Kerry is wafle land, not rifing to above 

 3d. an acre, and the other fifths on an average 

 at 73. an acre. Farms are from 20!. a year 

 to 130!. the large ones include confiderable 

 mountain tracts. The tillage of the country 

 is trifling. The courfe is, 



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