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halfpenny a quart ; five quarts of butter-milk 

 in fummer for a halfpenny. 



Lord Tyrone has improved 127 acres of hill, 

 the foil reddifh dry loam, on a flaty bottom, 

 over-run with French and Irifh furze, and 

 briars and builies^he firft grubbed them up 

 at a guinea an acre : then he levelled an in- 

 finite number of old ditches and mounds, at 

 50!. expenfe, ploughed in winter, and fecond 

 ploughed in Mayj and 200 barrels of roach 

 lime per acre, fpread, at is. a barrel. Upon 

 this ploughed twice more; and fowed, part 

 with wheat at Michaelmas, and part, with bar- 

 ley in fpring. The crops exceedingly good ; 

 8 barrels an acre of wheat, and 1 8 of barley. 

 After the wheat, barley and grafs feeds were 

 fown ; the barley as good as the other j and 

 upon the barley, part oats were fown, the 

 crop 15 barrels, and white clover and hay 

 feeds. Before the improvement, it let at los. an 

 acre ; after the improvement it would let rea- 

 dily at 25$. The grubbing the furze was not 

 effectual, for 50!. has been iince expended in 

 grubbing up Icattered ones. They are now 

 completely deftroyed, is a very beautiful well- 

 laid lawn, and fo good land, that the wool of 

 the fheep alone that were kept there lafl year, 

 without other food, and through the year paid 

 2os. an acre for the whole. It would now 

 feed 600 fheep through the year. Over 90 

 acres limed, with 250 barrels an acre, and fal- 

 lowed, had 17 barrels an acre of wheat. Eight 

 years ago, his Lordfhip (lopped their burning 

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