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superior rate of interest in Ireland, in con- 

 sequence of a deficiency of capital, is a great 

 check to all commercial pursuits. 



Mr. Radcliffe obligingly offered to take me to 

 Howth ; and it was agreed we should breakfast 

 with Mr. Hutton, at whose manufactory we had 

 been so highly gratified, and who, on a small 

 scale, is an excellent farmer. From Mr. Hut- 

 ton's we paid a visit to Mr. Sayer, of Green 

 Road, who has a considerable farm, and soils to 

 a great extent. Twenty head of cattle, of dif- 

 ferent ages, were here soiled from the 3d of 

 May to the 8th of September on the produce of 

 seventeen acres of clover and meadow land. 

 Mr. Sayer's green crops, for Ireland, were mag- 

 nificent : he had nearly twenty acres of turnips, 

 of which half the quantity were Swedes, thirty 

 acres of potatoes, as many of beans, ten acres 

 of rape, and three of mangel wurzel, which, 

 with the clover, amounted to seventy-six acres 

 of green crops, and comprehended nearly one 

 third of the farm ; beside which, there were 

 forty-two acres of wheat, and twenty- two acres 

 of oats. The land had been greatly exhausted 

 at the time Mr. Sayer commenced his able 

 operations. The attention now bestowed to 

 the cleaning of the land will soon bring it 



