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able breadth of that grass on a peat soil, which 

 he first pares and burns, cleaning it by these 

 means of all weeds, and obtaining a valuable 

 top dressing by the ashes for the surface, 

 after being trenched with the spade. Top 

 dressings, or water, are requisite to ensure 

 weighty crops, which are much injured by the 

 intrusion of other grasses, an evil scarcely ad- 

 mitting of a remedy: especially in meadows, 

 which near this place are full of fiorin, and 

 might with some labor be made good specimens 

 of that herbage. The soil in the neighbour- 

 hood being strong, the farmers have recourse 

 to sea sand, and many were seen leading it into 

 the fields ; one man was driving a Scotch cart 

 and an Irish car, he admitted without hesita- 

 tion that the cart carried twice the quantity. 

 Should this practical conviction become general, 

 the maintenance of a considerable number of 

 farming horses would be saved. 



The nominal cheapness of labor, on this and 

 on other occasions, accounts for its profuse ap- 

 plication. 



MJ i/ 



The shovel, which is the implement generally 

 used in this part of Ireland for digging in all 

 soils, is mounted with a shaft or handle about 



