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peafe, beans, clover, or turnips j but they have 

 little patches of flax for their own confump- 

 tion. Potatoes they very generally cultivate 

 in drills; they plough the flubble twice or 

 thrice, and then open trenches with the plough 

 three feet afunder ; in which they put fome 

 dung, lay the fets on it, and cover them with 

 the plough if they have horfes, or if not with 

 fhovels. They keep them clean by conftant 

 earthing up with ploughs or (hovels. They 

 dig them out, the produce thirty-five barrels 

 per acre. They find that nothing is fo good 

 and clean as fallow for corn. Some poor 

 people hire grafs land for them in the lazy 

 bed way, paying 3!. 105!. los. per acre. 



The only manure ufed befides dung is the 

 fhelly made, dredged up from the bottom of 

 the Shannon. Mr. Head's grandfather was 

 the firft who introduced that method of getting 

 at it by bringing men from Dublin ufed to 

 raifing ballaft. It proved fo profitable, that 

 the ufe has much increafed fince. It lies irre- 

 gularly in banks, from 100 to 200 yards from 

 the fhore, and under 10 or 12 feet of water in 

 fummer which is the only time they can get it. 

 The price of railing it is from is. to 2s. ac- 

 cording to circumftances, befides finding boat, 

 ropes, and all tackle ; a boat contains 60 

 bufhels, and requires 5 men. They land it on 

 a quay,, from whence it is taken in fledge 

 carts to fome diftance for drying, nor is it dry 

 enough for carting away till the year follow- 

 ing. Some think it worth carrying one mile, 



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