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A curragh of one hundred acres, that is a 

 wet quaking bog, which will not do for turf) 

 with a long fedgy grafs on it. Part of a farm 

 at 30I. a year, Lord Altamont took into his 

 hands, with the confent of the tenant ; he- 

 drained it to the amount of 30I. at yd. a perch, 

 five feet deep, and ten feet wide; this limple 

 thing improved it fo much, that without any 

 Other improvement, he fet it to the fame te- 

 nant, at 70I. a year. Made perfectly found* 

 fo that bullocks of 8 cwt. could graze on it. 



Updn the whole, Lord Altamont is of opi- 

 nion, from a variety of experience, that the 

 belt, method of breaking up heathy mountain 

 land, is by manuring with lime-ftone fand, to 

 the thicknefs of an inch, which at prefent cofts 

 iL us. 6d. per acre. If fand is not to be had, 

 then the white marie from under moory bot- 

 toms; and if there is none of that, then lime. 

 Objeds to lime, as it brings the land infallibly 

 to mofs, which is fo powerful as to choak the 

 graffes, but marie is an excellent manure. To 

 leave it for three years, or till dailies (bcllis) 

 and white clover (trifolium repens) appear, then 

 to plough it in May or June, and again in 

 autumn ; and in the fpring to plant potatoes, 

 in the common trenching way, and after the 

 potatoes, would fow oats fucceffively, till the 

 chickweed (aljine media) appears, which is a 

 fign that the tillage has fo enriched the land, 

 that the crops will be too great, and then leave 

 it for grafs. This is what he has on experience 

 found to be the bed: way. If feaweed is plen- 

 tiful, 



