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Leitrim lets at 4s on an average. In Lei trim 

 there are many mountain improvements, by 

 fetting fire to the heath in fummer, liming it 

 the following fpring, marling upon that, and 

 then plant potatoes, get great crops, and make 

 fine land of it. The fize of farms rife com- 

 monly to 5 or 600 acres, but the general fize is 

 about 100 acres, with many fmall ones: Run- 

 dale, or the hiring of farms in partnership, is 

 very common, three or four families will take 

 100 acres. A great part of the country is let 

 to tenants who do not occupy, but re-let at ad- 

 vanced rents to the poor people. The courfe 

 of crops is: 1. Potatoes. 2. Potatoes. 3. Bere. 



4. Barley, or Oats. 5. Oats. .6. Lay out for 



weeds, four or five years. 

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1, Potatoes. 2. Bere. 3. Oats, 4. Oats. 



5. Lay it out 



1. Potatoes. 2. Flax. 3. Bere. 4. Oats. 5. Oats. 



Of potatoes, they fow four barrels to an acre, 

 each 64 ftone, and get 40 in return j the price 

 5s. to 14s. average 8s. Of bere they fow 2* 

 ftone, and get 10 barrels. Oi barley ditto, get 

 12. Oats they fow 2 barrels, at 14 ftone, and 

 get 15. The wafle mountains are improving 

 very faft, by families hiring fpots of heath, build- 

 ing their cabbins on them, and improving them 

 under a rent of 5s. to 8s. an acre. They bring 

 it all in by potatoes, but ufe no lime, though 

 they could have it cheap, for lime-itone is on 

 the fpot, and plenty of turf to burn it with; 

 this is the cafe with Cornclanew, near Carrick 

 Glafs. White marie is found under the bogs, 

 but fcarce any of it ufed. The fyftem of cattle 

 molt common, is to buy yearlings, at 40s. and 



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