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the reft, fpread but lately, yet the appearance 

 is much in favour of the fand. 



October ad, to Ardfert by Tralee, through 

 a continuation of excellent land, and execra- 

 ble management. Mr. Bateman tried rock 

 fait on grafs land for a manure, half a ton to 

 the Englifh acre, but found not the leaft bene- 

 fit from it. But of lime he has ufed large 

 quantities, and with great fuccefs; burning it 

 for 6d. a barrel, in a (landing kiln with turf, 

 four eyes or fires to each ; lays on 50 barrels 

 to an acre, and has advanced fome land, by 

 draining and liming, from 5, to 2os. an 

 acre, the foil a cold ftiff clayey gravel. 



To the weft of Tralee are the Mahagree If- 

 lands, famous for their corn produces; they 

 are rock and fand, ftocked with rabbits ; near 

 them a fandy tract, 12 miles long, and one 

 mile broad, to the north, with the mountains 

 to the fouth, famous for the beft wheat in Ker- 

 ry. All under the plough. Their courfe. 



i. Buck potatoes. 2. Barley. 3. Wheat. 

 Alfo corn on fome land, without any interme- 

 diate crop. Manure for every crop, if pota- 

 toes with fea weed, great crops j they get 20 

 for one of wheat and barley. All grain is re- 

 markably early j they have fown Englifh bar- 

 ley, and made bread of the crop in fix weeks ; 

 thefe lands let at 143. or 153. an acre, but fome 

 much higher. Farms- are large, one, two, or 

 three hundred acres, but fome are taken in 



partnerfhip. 



