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every year has a large quantity ; drills them 

 with a very cheap limple drill, his own in- 

 vention, and thins them out by hand, or hoes 

 them. I viewed his crop, and found them 

 very regular, and of a good fize; with the 

 leaves of the whole of a remarkable deep 

 green, without any yellow ones r. more fo, I 

 think, than is common in England, and I 

 obferved the fame circumflance with the other 

 crops I faw. He ufes them for feeding and 

 fattening fheep, giving them on dry grafs 

 land; alfo for flail-feeding bullocks, and finds 

 the advantage of both ufes fo great, that he 

 does not know what he fhould do without 

 them. 



In the winter management of his cattle, he 

 proceeds on very different principles from what 

 is common in Ireland ; inftead of feeding them 

 abroad, and for that purpofe flacking the hay 

 about the fields, he ties them up in flails, of 

 which he has many, and is erecting more : he 

 ties up above 100 head, in which he fihds the 

 greatefl advantage, both in the cattle, faving 

 food, and yielding dung. The breed of Iheep 

 he has begun to change, from the long-legged 

 Tipperary to the fhortlegs of Leiceflerfhire; has 

 feveral tups of that breed, and finds that the 

 change is of the higheflconfequence. Folding 

 he has practiced with the greatefl fuccefs. 

 The breed of hogs he has alfo changed to the 

 Berkfhire, and has one of the finefl boars of 

 that breed I have feen. 



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