J 66 Land let in Con-acres. 



church. The grounds are laid out with great 

 taste, and the luxuriant growth of the trees and 

 shrubs affords incontestable evidence of the 

 fertility of the soil. The after-math was equal 

 to any production of the kind I ever beheld : 

 the meadow in the front of the house, which I 

 particularly admired, had been for a succession 

 of years annually cut for hay. 



It is a practice in many parts of Ireland to 

 let land in con-acre* ; when held under this de- 

 nomination, the tenants, as I observed in a for- 

 mer letter, are under no control as to the mode 

 of cropping or treatment of their farms. In 

 these cases the rents are always high, extending 

 from eight to ten pounds the acre. Reasoning 

 from the experience acquired in England, one 

 might fearlessly pronounce that such practices 

 as this system not only permits, but encourages, 

 must be destructive to the land. This, how- 

 ever, is not here the case ; for a little rest re- 

 stores it to its pristine fertility and friability, and 

 enables it to receive all the meliorating influ- 

 ences of the atmosphere. In this circumstance 

 appears an essential difference between the soils 

 of England and Ireland. 



These contractors for con-acres naturally avail 

 themselves of the greatest possible benefit they 



