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i. Potatoes dnnged for. 2. Wheat, yield* 

 from 28 to 40 bufhels, but reckon it by cwts. 

 3. Barley. 4. Oats. 5. Clover for 3 years, 

 or clover and hay-feeds in cafe defigned to lay 

 longer, 6, 7, and 8. Oats. Alfo, 



I. Potatoes. 2. Flax. 3. Corn, &c. 



A great deal of lime ufed from Carlingford; 

 the ftone is brought and burnt with Milford 

 or Scotch culm, and cofts them, when burnt, 

 about 1 id. a barrel. It has been found very 

 beneficial, has been ufed about 10 or 12 

 years : it does beft on middling land neither 

 very dry nor wet. Sea-fand is much ufed for 

 ftrong clay, and brings the fineft crops that 

 can be. White marie from under the bogs 

 they prefer to lime; it improves land fo much 

 that it will never be as bad again. Wherever 

 thev can get fhell fand, they do, and find the 

 benefit very great : fea-weed they alfo ufe for 

 their barley lands what they get in winter, 

 but in fummer they dry and burn it into 

 kelp. Cattle very trifling, only fmall flocks 

 for convenience. The principal religion is 

 prefbyterian. 



If a weaver has, as moft have, a crop of 

 flax, the wife and daughter fpin it and he 

 weaves it : if he is not a weaver, but em- 

 ployed by his farm, they carry the yarn to 

 market. The diet of the poor is oaten bread, 

 potatoes, milk, herrings, &c. The little far- 

 mers generally have meat once a week in 



fummer, 



