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a courfe of tillage among trees. The fuccefs 

 was as great as poffible ; I favv the crop of hay- 

 mown, and it is not lefs than 16 loads an acre. 

 This is a fyftem which in many cafes would 

 be of the greateit ute in reviving old hide- 

 bound paftures without the trouble of a courfe 

 of tillage. It fhould, however, be obferved, 

 that the climate of Ireland is peculiarly fa- 

 vourable to laying land to grafs at that feafon, 

 for it grows luxuriantly quiie till Chriftmas. 



Another inftance of this natural tendency 

 of the foil to grafs, is a trial the general acci- 

 dentally made. He had a fiiiall field under 

 turnips, which he heed well, and were a fine 

 crop 5 upon being drawn to feed the plough 

 bullocks with, he found much grafs upon the 

 land, fo much, that it induced him to let it 

 ftand, and the rather as it was laid very flat 

 and fmooth with the turnips, he rolled in fome 

 grai's feeds, and it turned out a very fine mea- 

 dow. He was the firft who fowed red clover 

 here, and is not yet followed by the farmers. 

 He encouraged his tenants to lime, and lends 

 them money for it. Much land is laid to grafs 

 at Mount Kennedy, and all of it done in a 

 perfed manner, the fu'rface laid completely 

 fmooth, without the leaft fign of a furrow, 

 and the graffes luxuriant ; all manured richly 

 with gravel and marie. 



I faw two large compoft dunghills turning 

 over and mixing, a fight not common in Ire- 

 land. It pleafed me more than the fight of a 

 palace would have done. The general s crops 

 Ks I found 



