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acre. Mr. Mahon only 12. They get 6 in re- 

 turn. They fow 2 barrels of barley, and get q„ 

 Of oats they fow 2 barrels, and get 10. Lime 

 ftone gravel the great manure •, they put 1 500 

 load, at 5 cwt. each, on an acre, and it cofls rl. 

 or il. is. It does belt on itrong land, efpecially 

 free (lone ; it will laft 7 years, in which time 

 they will take 7 crops. Of lime they ufe no 

 great quantity ; but when they do, lay 50 bar- 

 rels an acre. Mr. Mahon compared different 

 quantities of it, from 50 to 100, and the more 

 was laid the better it was, but the lime-ftone 

 gravel better than any of them. About Strokef- 

 town, Mr. Mahon can have turf in one hole 

 and lime-ftone in another, and he burns it in 

 arched kilns, with feveral eyes, the flone 1 5 

 deep over them, and 200 barrels of lime to each 

 eye ; it burns in 60 hours, each eye takes 10 

 clamps of turf, at 4s. each, including drawing, 

 each clamp 30 kifhcs. Quarrying and breaking, 

 burning, filling, and building and emptying, 2I 

 an eye, in all 4I. for 200 barrels roach, or 

 about 5d. a barrel. They have both white and 

 grey marie under the bogs, the light fort, but 

 the gravel and fandy lime-ftone is fomuch bet- 

 ter that nobody ufes it. They plough with 4 

 horfes 2 and 2 abreaft. Mr. Mahon, with 2 

 abreaft by boys, taught by a ploughman he had 

 from Bury in Suffolk, who by ploughing in that 

 manner, without a driver and with a Suffolk 

 plough, did as much in one day as the country 

 people in three : by teaching lads for Mr. Ma* 

 hon and his neighbours, was- the means of ve- 

 ry much improving the tillage of the neighbour- 

 hood. 



