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ceffion for many years, and without any fuch 

 practice as hoeing. And though the land is 

 light, dry and found, not a turnip is fown; 

 fo that, in 21 miles, I faw not a fingle fallow 

 for them. Sowing beans and peafe is, howe- 

 ver, common, and they have farther a notion 

 that doing fo refrefhes the land. I faw no 

 beans in Ireland till I came here. They told 

 me their crops were : Barley and oats 6 to 12 

 barrels. Beans 8 to 10 barrels. They ufe 

 both marie and lime; of the former they lay 

 400 car loads per acre, and it lails 1 2 crops. 

 Much of their wheat is fown on lays, marled 

 and dunged, and the crops were very good. 

 Potatoes not the food of the people the year 

 through, as in other parts of Ireland ; they 

 live on them only in the winter, and have oat- 

 meal the reft of the year. Barley is the crop 

 that fucceeds them. 



Advancing farther I had frefh accounts.— 

 Wheat they fow on lays, with only one plough- 

 ing, and get from 7 to 10 barrels an acre ; and 

 of oats and barley on good land fometimes fo 

 high as 15 to 17 barrels. They lime much, 

 and ufually take but four or five crops of corn 

 running, upon which they feemed to pride 

 themfelves much, as being good farmers. 

 Farms in Bargie generally from 40 to 100 

 acres. Here I underftood there was a part of 

 the barony of Shclmal inhabited by quakers, 

 rich men and good farmers. A farmer I talked 

 to faid of them : — the quakers be very cunning, 

 and the devil a bad acre of land will they hire. 



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