1 42 Inspect ionqf Mr.b 'ayersFarm at G reenRoad. 



into the highest order, when it must become an 

 object of great interest to the agriculturist. 

 This is infinitely the best specimen of farming 

 I had yet seen in Ireland. We had here a 

 further evidence of the fertility of the soil. 

 The preparation for the bean crop, which, con- 

 sidering it was raised without manure, was a 

 very fair one, had been, twice ploughing, once 

 harrowing, and a little picking or weeding. 

 These operations were considered as sufficient, 

 not only to obtain an average crop of beans, 

 which the result justified, but ample to ensure 

 afterwards a good crop of wheat. Hoeing of 

 turnips is little understood; the earth is neither 

 cleansed from the roots of the plant, nor are 

 they set out at a sufficient distance from each 

 other. I could not resist borrowing a hoe from 

 one of the people at work, and giving them an 

 example of the manner in which turnip hoeing 

 should be executed : my attempt created much 

 surprise^ and satisfied the laborers as to one 

 point only, that it was a wanton waste of the 

 crop. I pressed the bailiff to proceed in the 

 same way with one stich only, that he might 

 hereafter be enabled to judge which was the 

 best method. I did not measure the blade or 

 edge of the hoe in use ; but as a width of ten 

 inches is not considered too much in the best 



