124 MOUNT KENNEDY. 



an acre. Another third lets for 20s. The 

 remaining fixth at 9s. — Average of the whole 

 15s. an acre. 



The courfes of crops are : 1 . Potatoes ; all 

 the dung of the country ufed for them. 2. 

 Wheat -, fow one barrel, and get on an aver- 

 age 8 barrels. All the furrows fhovelled. 



3. Oats; fow near 2, and get 10 barrels. 4. 

 Oats. 5. Barley ; fow \ and get 10, and then 

 leave it for lay for 5 years, never fowing any 

 grafs feeds. It produces nothing at all for 

 three years, but after that white clover comes 

 ilowly. 



Barley has been more cultivated upon ac- 

 count of the quantity of ale and beer which 

 is brewed here, being the common beverage 

 through the county, and more famous for it 

 than any other. The barrel, 2-thirds of a 

 hogfhead, fells at 40s. Malt malted here 14s. 

 a barrel j the barley 10s. 6d. 



Another courfe : 1. Marie, or lime-ftone 

 gravel, on the lay, 1600 loads an acre, and 

 fow barley. 2. Wheat. 3. Oats or barley. 



4. Oats or ditto, till left to lay again. Gra- 

 velling they generally confider as a right to 

 fix or eight crops. Their wheat after pota- 

 toes they fow fo late as Chriftmas. 



Very few peafe, and no beans, nor any 

 rape; and not a turnip, though faw great 

 tracts perfectly adopted to that crop. They 

 fow alfo very little of flax, having no fuch 



manufacture. 



