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From whence it appears, that the prime coft 

 of the potatoes is 4s. a barrel. Wheat is 

 fown after them, and fometimes barley ; the 

 wheat is generally a bad crop and bad grain, 

 but the barley good. For fat hogs they boil 

 them, and at laft mix fome bran or oats ; a 

 hog of 2 cwt. will fatten in two months, on 

 fix barrels and one barrel of oats. Much 

 poultry is alfo reared and fed in all the cab- 

 bins by means of potatoes. 



Wafte lands have been brought in and cul- 

 tivated at Grange Geath, the foil ftony and 

 over-run with heath (erica vulgaris) and whins, 

 (ukx enropceus) let before the improvement at 

 4s. but lets now at 20s. They ploughed up 

 the furface and fpontaneous growth, fummer 

 fallowed and lined at 150 barrels an acre, 

 fowed wheat, and purfued the courfe above 

 mentioned, the crops of oats exceedingly great, 

 20 barrels an acre j of this land there were 

 2500 acres. The great manure of the coun- 

 try is - lime, which is always laid on fallow; 



they 



