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crops of oats. Throughout the improvement, 

 the lime has been fo exceedingly beneficial 

 that he attributes his fuccefs principally to the 

 life of it. Without it, all other circumftances 

 equal, he has got 3 or 4 barrels an acre of oats, 

 but with it 20 and 22 of barley. Has compar- 

 ed lime and white marie on an improved moun- 

 tain-foil for flax, that on the lime produce4 

 1 000 lb. well fcutched, the other 300 lb. 



His great object was to (hew the tenantry 

 as foon as he could, what thefe improvements 

 would do in corn, in order to fet them to work 

 themfelves. He fold them the corn crops on 

 the ground at 40s. an acre: the three crops 

 paid him therefore the expenfe of the liming, 

 at the fame time they were profitable bargains 

 to the tenants. With the third corn-crop the 

 land was laid down to grafs. Upon this ope-^ 

 ration, after the manuring, ditching and drain- 

 ing, the old tenants very readily hired them. 

 Some feeing the benefit of the works, execut- 

 ed them upon their own lands ; but their land- 

 lord advanced all the money, and trufted to 

 their fuccefs and honefly for the payment. 

 This change of their fentiments induced him 

 to build new farni-hou fes, of which he has 

 erected above 30, all of lime and ftone, at the 

 expenfe of above 40I. a houfe; the farms are 

 in general about 80 acres each. 



After fix or feven years, the chief baron Iim« 

 ed much of it a fecond time on the fod, anc? 

 the benefit of it very great. It is all let now 



on 



