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barrels an acre. The fucceeding fallow is 

 ploughed four times, the crop of wheat as good 

 as after here, but the following oats will not 

 yield above eight or nine barrels. 



The medium prices of the preceding pro- 

 ducts have of late years been, Wheat, aos. 

 Bere, los. Oats, 5. Peafe, 6s. There are 

 very few threfhing floors of wood : but they 

 make the clay ones fo hard, that they think 

 them as good. Flax is fown only by the cot- 

 tars in their gardens -, very few that do not 

 fow fome. Six potties of feed on about four 

 perch of land. They proportion it very ex- 

 aclly to their own confumption ; it is wove by 

 weavers, who make it their bufinefs to weave 

 for others ; and there are very few gentlemen 

 that do not do the fame for the coarfe linen of 

 their families. 



Marie and lime-flone fand are the manures 

 ufed here. They have two ways of improving 

 wafte land with marie : they plough and fow 

 oats, and marie the flubble : or elfe they marie 

 at firft upon the lay : this is moftly praftifed 

 in the Duharrow mountains, where it has 

 worked very great improvements. It is a grey 

 foapy marie, full of fhells, dredged from the 

 bottom, of the Shannon. The expenfe of get- 

 ting it, with boats and carriage into the land, 

 is 405. an acre. Lime-ftone fand is laid on at 

 the end of an exhaufting courfe, on the oat 

 flubble : it cofts about 503. an acre. Very 

 little lime ufed. No farm-yards > the hay is 



flacked 



