8 DUBLIN. 



found the benefit very great ; the foil, a 

 flrong, wet, ftoney loam or lime flone. He 

 lays 1 60 barrels an acre, at the expenfe of 

 feven pence a barrel, and finds that it will 

 laft as long as the gravel. For meadow 

 lands, he prefers it mixed with earth, but 

 on tillage gravel. Soot he buys at Dublin 

 for fowing over the wheat in April to kill 

 the red worm, for which it anfwers, and alfo 

 improves the crop. Another circumftance in 

 which he differs from the farmers, is cutting 

 ftraw into chaff, and alfo in beginning to 

 plough his fallows in autumn. He much 

 prefers ploughing with oxen to horfes. The 

 following particulars he gave me of the ge- 

 neral flate of hufbandry in the county of 

 Dublin: farms about 100 1. a year, more 

 above than under, fome to 300 1. a year. 

 The foil on the furface a ftoney yellow clay, 

 18 inches deep on lime-ftone gravel, with 

 fome exceptions of flate-ilone, rents about 

 1 1. us, 6d: from 10s. 6d. td 3I. 3s. 

 courfes moft general, 



1. Fallow. 



2. Wheat. Sow 1 barrel, and get on an 



average 8 barrels. 



3. Oats. Sow 2 barrels, get from 12 to 



20. 

 Sometimes 1. Fallow. 2. Wheat. 3. Oats. 

 4. Clover. 5. Wheat. 6. Oats. They plough 

 four times for wheat, on clover but once, 

 feed their clover the year through. No fain- 

 foine. 



Many 



