TILLAGE. 



Thefe quantities per Englifli acre are : 



%r$. Eujb. Pecks. 

 Wheat Z 2, 3 



Barley 3 4 3 



Oats 34 3 



Bere 430 



The averages of the Farmer's Tour through the Eaft of 

 England were: 



%j. Bujb. Pecks. 

 Wheat 300 



Barley 400 



Oats 460 



Of the Six Months Tour through the North of England : 



4V* Eujh. Pecks. 

 Wheat 300 



Barley 400 



Oats 440 



The produfls upon the whole are much inferior to thofe of 

 England, though not more fo than I ftiould have expected; 

 not from inferiority of foil,, but the extreme inferiority of ma- 

 nagement. They are not to be coniidered as points whereon 

 to found a full comparifon of the two countries ; fmce a fmall 

 crop of wheat in England, gained after beans, clover, &c. 

 would be of much more importance than a larger one in Ire- 

 land by a fallow : And thl- remark extends to other crops. 



Tillage in Ireland is very little underftood. In the greater! 

 corn counties, fuch as Louth, Kildare, Cartow and Kilkenny, 

 where are to be feen many very fine crops of wheat, all is un- 

 der the old fyfteiu, exploded by good farmers in England, of 

 fowing wheat upon a fallow, and fucceeding it with as many 

 crops of fpring corn as the foil will bear. Where they do bell 

 by their land, it is only two of barley or oats before the fal- 

 low returns again, which is fomething worle than thp open 

 field management in England, of i. fallow ; 2. wheat ; 3. 

 oats ; to which, while the fields are open and common, the 

 fanners are by erne! neceflity tied down. The bounty on the 

 inland carriage of corn to Dublin has increafed tillage very 

 confiderably, but it has no where introduced any other fyf- 

 tem. And to this extreme bad management of adopting the 

 exploded practice of a century ago, inftead of turneps and 

 clover, it is owing, that Ireland, with a foil, acre for acre, 

 much better than England, has its products inferior 



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