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The extremes of dale may be called from 

 1730 to 1770, or 40 years, the average of the 

 period would be 20 years ; but we may fifely 

 fay that in 30 years the rent is quadrupled. 

 The courfes of crops j 



1. Potatoes. 2. Potatoes, reversing the lands. 

 3. Oats. 4. Oats. 5. Oats. 6. Lay out for 

 weeds, &c. 



1. Potatoes. 2. Potatoes. 3. Oats. 4. Oats. 

 5. Flax. 6. Oats. 7- Lay it down. 



1. Potatoes. 2. Potatoes. 3. Barley. 4. Oats. 

 5. Oats. 6. Lay it out. 



Tillage farms rife from nine acres fubdivided, 

 to large tracts in grazing ones. The manures 

 are marie, lime-ftone, gravel, lime, bog, and fod 

 afhes; the marie is white and light, found un- 

 der bogs, and in banks j, that in the banks, about 

 Florence Court, is upon clay, or gravel, with 

 fprings under it, which makes the marie run into 

 forms like cinders, petrified, and of a reddilh 

 caft, as if from vitriolic acid. The whole coun- 

 try abounds with'fuiphureous, and other mine- 

 ral fprings. Very little of this marie ufedj they 

 ufe the lime Hone gravelly clay moft, which 

 gives them very good crops. The expenle of 

 lime, carriage included, is 8d. a barrel, flacked; 

 they lay lixty barrels an acre. They burn their 

 mountain land, lime, and marie it, and fet pota- 

 toes. In the year 1774, there were claimants 

 for the Dublin Society's premiums, for 174 acres 



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