The ttishop of Derry's Farm. 



most successful cultivator of ficrin. A meadow 

 under the walls of Derry, which we visited 

 yesterday, was a prodigious fine specimen of 

 the luxuriance to which, by cultivation, this 

 herbage may be brought ; the stolones, or run- 

 ners, were full six feet in length, arid so profuse 

 and strong, that walking over them resembled 

 the treading on a bed of rushes. There was a 

 luxuriance in this crop far exceeding any thing 

 of the sort I had yet seen ; the soil indeed is in 

 itself excellent, and the surface was irrigated 

 with the waste water of the town. It had pro- 

 duced eight tons of hay per acre the preceding 

 year, which sold for upwards of forty guineas. 

 The mangel-wurzel is also here cultivated to a 

 considerable extent. The leaves are stripped off, 

 and given to the cattle. From an experiment 

 made by the Bishop, the weight of the tops was 

 calculated to be fifteen tons per acre ; and it 

 was expected that the leaves might be pulled a 

 second time, of which I entertain some doubt. 

 The ground from which early potatoes are 

 procured is afterwards planted with mangel- 

 wurzel 5 if this practice answer, it will be 

 attended with great advantage to the cottier, 

 who may raise food for his pig after an early 

 crop for his family, and thus economize his 

 store of potatoes. From these lands under a 

 good system of management, three thousand 



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