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one inclofure, and Cowed -one third with wheat, a third 

 with rye, and the other with here, as an experiment ; 

 the other field with turneps, which from the continual 

 drought, failed. Two cabbins were built. And the whole 

 expence in five months, including the price of all ploughing, 

 and carriage, (the latter from the miferable cars and garrens 

 "at a motl extravagant rate) buying timber, ftewards wages, 

 &c. amounted to one hundred and fifty pounds. The mo- 

 ment the neighbours underftood the works were at an end, 

 fome of them offered me ten {hillings an acre for the land to 

 take it as it was, which is juft eleven per cent, tor the money, 

 butl could have got more. The following were the only data 

 gained : lime burnt for hvepence a barrel. Paring with the 

 graffan in ftoney land 305* to 405. an acre, and done by the 

 plough at eight {hillings much better, burning and fpreading 

 the allies depends on weaiiier, one piece coil above twenty 

 {hillings an acre, the other not five, but on an average I fliould 

 calculate it at ten {Killings. The whole operation may be 

 very well done with the plough at twenty Shillings. Clearing 

 from ftones and carting away, various ; I found a very ftoney 

 piece could be cleared at twelve {hillings an acre. A Jingle 

 ditch feven feet broad, and from three to five deep, the bank 

 nine feet high from the bottom of the ditch, coft one {hilling 

 and fixpence j but this expence would haveleflened when they 

 were more accuftomed to it : consequently a double fence with 

 a fpace between left for planting, three {hillings. 



My defign was topurchafe a flock of mountain iheep jn the 

 following fpring, and keep them through the fummer in the 

 mountains, but folding them every night in the improvement, 

 in which work I could have inftructed the people, and when 

 once they had feen the benefit, I do not think the practice would 

 ever have been loft. To have provided plenty of turneps for 

 their winter fupport, and improved the breed by giving them 

 fome better tups, but to have done this gradually in propor- 

 tion as their food improved. Turneps to be for fome years the 

 only crop, except fmall pieces by way of trial. To have laid 

 down the land to grafs after a proper courfe of turneps in the 

 manner and with the feeds I praclifed in Hertfordfliire, which 

 would have fhewn what thai operation is. There is not a 

 complete meadow in the whole country. To have proportion- 

 ed the {heepto the turneps at the rate of from twenty to thirty 

 an acre according to UK. goodnefs of the crop : there is a pow- 

 er in luch wafte tracts of keeping any number in fummer ; the 

 common people keep them all the year round on the mountains. 



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mer, especially info ivet a climate as Ireland ; andivken M mare is 

 paid for a day in July than in December. Some of my banks fell 

 unto the Autumn rains, oiling to tiuo caufes ; fir ft, the men, injiead 

 of knoiving hoi'j to make a ditch <were mountaineers, nvho fcarcety 

 l*e0 the right *nd of a fpade - and fecondly, it proved the dryejl 

 ever was known in Ireland. 



