MANURES, 



Thefe quantities are upon the whole confiderable. The 

 price fhews the plenty of this manure in Ireland. To find 

 any place where it can be burnt for three pence and four pence 

 is truly wonderful, but can only be from the union of turf and 

 kmeftone at the fame place. 



I no where heard of any land that had been over limed, or 

 on which the repetition of it had proved fo disadvantageous as 

 it has fometimes been found in England *. 



Limeftone gravel is a manure peculiar to Ireland j and is 

 moft excellent. It is a blue gravel, mixed with (tones as large 

 as a man's fift, and fometimes with a clay loam ; but the 

 whole mafs has a very ftrong effervefcence with acid. On un- 

 cultivated lands it has the fame wonderful effect as lime, and 

 on clay arable, a much greater j but it is beneficial to all foils. 

 In the ifle of Anglefea, a country which very much refembles 

 Ireland, there is a gravel much like it, which has alfo feme 

 effervefcence ; but i never met with it in any other part of 

 England. 



Mark in Ireland is not fo common as thefe manures. That 

 which is ofteneft found is white, and remarkably light ; it lies 

 generally under bogs. Shell marie is dredged up in the Shan- 

 non, and in the harbour of Waterford. 



In the catalogue of manures, I wifli I could add the com- 

 pofts formed in well lUtered farm yards, but there is not any 

 part of hufbandry in the kingdom more neglected than this; 

 indeed I have fcarce any where feen the lead veftige of fuch a 

 convenience as a yard furrounded with offices for the winter 

 flicker, and feeding of cattle. All forts of animals range about 

 the field in winter, by which means the quantity of dung raifed 

 is contemptible. To dwell upon a point of fuch acknowledg- 

 ed importance is needfefs. Time it is to be hoped will intro- 

 duce a better fyftem. 



WASTE 



* See a Letter from the late Earl of HoUernefs to me, inftrttd in 

 ition of the Northern T&ur, 



