64 PACKENHAM. 



His lordfhip has tried cabbages feveral times, 

 and he finds that while they laft they are bet- 

 ter than turnips, but prefers the latter on ac- 

 count of the fhort duration of the former. 



Limeftone gravel he has tried on a large 

 ^fcale, lays 1000 loads an acre, at il. ios. ex- 

 penfe, if it is in the field. The efFed prodi- 

 gious wherever it is laid, On a bare rocky 

 fpot in the front of the houfe, where the 

 earth had been cleared away, and there was 

 no vegetation but of weeds, fome gravel was 

 fpead, and it brought up an exceeding thick 

 coat of white and red clover. It is alfo infal- 

 lible in deftroying mofs. 



July 4th, Lord Longford carried me to a 

 Mr. Marly's, an improver in the neighbour- 

 hood, who has done great things, and with- 

 out the benefit of fuch leafes as proteftants in 

 Ireland commonly have. He rents ioooacres* 

 at firft it was at 2od. an acre, in the next 

 term 5s. or 250I. a year, and he now pays 850L 

 a year for it. t Alrnoft the whole farm is 

 mountain-land ; the fpontaneous growth heath, 

 &c. he has improved 500 acres. His method 

 has been to grub up the rubbifh, and then to 

 fummer fallow it, and to manure it with lime- 

 ftone gravel 1400 load an acre, at the expenfe 

 of 2I. 2s. Upon this he fows wheat or bere, 

 gets 9 barrels an acre of wheat, and 19 of 

 bere, then oats 12 to ^barrels. After which 

 he fallows again, and finifhes the fecond or 



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