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generally fats 2 bearls every year on them. 

 Sows the feed early in Auguft, and tranfplants 

 them in April and May for fucceffion ; has had 

 them in full perfection in February and March • 

 has tried fpring fowings, but they do not come 

 to more than 5 or 6 lb. whereas the Auguft fown 

 plants rife to 35 lb. He has alfo fed fheep upon 

 potatoes, buys them very forward in o&ober, 

 and puts them to his after grafs to keep their 

 flefh, and in the fevere weather gives rhem the 

 potatoes with great fuccefs. He took the hint 

 from feeing the fheep walk over the potatoe 

 grounds, and fcratching up the remaining roots 

 in hard weather. The only evil refulting from 

 the emigrations was, the money they carried a- 

 way with them, which was confiderable. 



Auguft 9th, to Convoy, where I was fo un- 

 fortunate as to find Mr. Montgomery from 

 home; paffing on to BallymafFey, I met that 

 gentleman's oxen, drawing fledge cars of turf, 

 fingle with collars, and worked to the full as 

 well as the horfes. They deferved wheels 

 however. On the other fide of BallymafFey, 

 it is curious to obferve, how, as you advance 

 towards the mountains, cultivation gradually 

 declines, it is chequered with heath, till at laft 

 the heath is chequered with cultivation, fpots 

 of green, on the mountain fides, furrounded by 

 the dreary wildernefs -, but there are no inclo- 

 fures. The wafte is exceedingly improvable, all 

 the tract on the left before I came to the lake, 

 and alfo beyond it, might eafily be made excel- 

 lent j it is bog, with a great fail every where, 



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