DUBLIN. 



Many potatoes in the ridgeway 7 feet 

 broad, and the furrows 31. Cut generally 

 18 to 24 inches deep, in order to throw up 

 fome lime- (tone eravel : always dung for 

 them 320 one horfe loads to an acre at about 

 5 or 6 to a ton, are fpread over the 7 feet. 

 Lay the fets upon the dung, dig. a fpit and 

 fhovel it i then dig another fpit, and another 

 {hovelling, the fetts 12 inches afunder ; from 

 4 to 5 barrels plant an acre. Weed, but 

 no hoeing; take them up with the fpade, 

 and the crop from 60 to 70 barrels : all are 

 planted for home-ufe, but they give their pigs 

 the fmall ones, boiled , and they will fatten 

 them to be fine bacon, but give fome butter- 

 milk, and a week or two before they are 

 filled fome offal corn. For fowls, boil them 

 to a maih, and mix with butter-milk, which 

 fattens them exceedingly well. The price of 

 potatoes on an average 20 d. per cwt. the 

 moft productive forts are the white kidney, 

 and the white Munfter. Lime-ftone gravel 

 the general manure of the country 5 they lay 

 3 or 400, one horfe-cart loads per acre ; it 

 will laft from 1 5 to 20 years, and is of the 

 greater! benefit ; it appears immediately : the 

 expenfe ufually 1 I. 1 1 s. 6 d. per acre. 

 Spread it on the fallow, after the firft plow- 

 ing. They go much to Dublin for fullage of 

 the ftreets to lay on their hay grounds. 



Good grafs-land letts at 40 s. an acre ; five 

 miles round Dublin from 40 s. to 10 1. on an 

 average about 3 1. 8 s. Mow moft of it for 



hay; 



