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Produce. 

 Three hundred and fifty pecks, at 6d. 



Profit - £: i 1 8 o 



Many arc planted in bogs that are drained - y 

 they are the firft thing they plant, manuring 

 with both lime-ftone gravel and dung, the firft 

 will not do alone, very little dung will do: the 

 crops are fuperior in quantity to thofe from any 

 other land, they will get 50 pecks more than 

 from the grafs land. They feed their cows and 

 pigs with them when plentiful. Mr. O'Hara of 

 Nymph sfield fatted many bullocks with them, 

 and found that they did exceedingly well. Of 

 barley they fow a barrel per acre, which is here 

 14 ftone, and get on an average 14 barrels an 

 acre. In Terrera barony they get great crops, 

 fometimes 20 barrels an acre. They fow 2 bar- 

 rels of 12 ftonc of oats, the mean produce 10 

 barrels, fome not above 5 or 6. Of wheat they 

 fow 1 2 ftonc, and the crop 6 barrels. Every 

 body fows a patch of flax ; a farming cottar, 

 with 6 or 7 acres, will fow 6 or 8 gallons. The 

 quantity of feed 40 gallons per acre. The va- 

 lue fold on the foot is in general 81. and the crop 

 is calculated that a gallon of feed produces a 

 ftone of fcutched ffax, or 40 ftone per acre. 

 The quantity of waftc improved is very confi- 

 derable •, it is moory mountain, about 1 2 inches 

 deep. In much of this, immediately under the 

 moor, is a thin ftraium of what they call lack- 

 clay, which is like baked clay, the thicknefs of 

 a tile, and no water gets through it. Under it 



lime- 



