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zjs, an acre for hay. After that, a frefh ma- 

 nuring, with a compoft of lime and earth, or 

 lime and gravel, and then would let at 15s. It 

 the land for potatoes is well dunged, the poor 

 will pay 4I. an acre for it ; and the hay, inftead 

 of 2 is. will let at 3I, 



In relation to his mountain-moor improve- 

 ment, the ftate o^ the foil before improving was 

 that of continued heath, (erica vulgaris) with 

 great quantities of lime-ilones on the furface. 

 Mr. French, in the firft place, ploughed it with 

 fix bullocks, which did not do more than one- 

 fourth of an acre a day, as the roots of the 

 heath made it ftrong work. As they turned 

 up the ftones, or were impeded by them, they 

 were drawn away in cars to make the wails. 

 Left it after the ploughing from half a year to 

 a year, and then broke it, crofs-ploughed, and 

 harrowed it ; in all four ploughingS; after the 

 laft, harrowed it fmooth, and limed. Began 

 with 60 barrels an acre, but increafed it to one 

 hundred, and to two hundred, and found the 

 crops better and better, in proportion to the 

 quantity. Upon the liming fowed the wheat, 

 and harrowed it in. The crop has been gene- 

 rally from five to feven barrels an acre. The 

 following year either barley or cats : of barley, 

 the crops have been middling, about eight bar- 

 rels, if oats, -twelve barrels. After either the 

 barley or oats, another crop of oats, equally 

 good, and with that lowed ha 5, or rye 



grafs and clover. Before the improvement it 

 let at 4s. c;d. twenty-five years ago, and if the 



fame 



