in kit Lordship's Farm ami A'/, <'.. 



cattle; the latter must be very prolific, as their 

 produce is estimated at three thousand stones 

 the Cunningham acre; the common mode of 

 planting potatoes in lazy beds does not pro- 

 duce one half the crop which is obtained by 

 the plough : this at length has become so ap- 

 parent, that many of the neighbouring small oc- 

 cupiers have been prevailed on to abandon their 

 customary practice. On his Lordship's farm 

 are raised very abundant crops of turnips by 

 drilling in the seed on a peat soil after claying; 

 I could perceive nothing to disapprove in the 

 culture, but insufficient hoeing, which has 

 been a general defect in every turnip crop \ve 

 have inspected. The soil is so productive and 

 profitable here under grass, that there is little 

 inducement to pay particular attention to the 

 arable parts of it : hence a natural con- 

 sequence, the former is well understood, the 

 latter conducted with perfect ignorance, and 

 as if unentitled to consideration ; which to us 

 has always appeared extraordinary, where lands 

 let, as in this district, from three to four pounds 

 per acre. Vast numbers of cattle are fattened 

 in this neighbourhood : twenty pounds a head 

 vcrc paid for his Lordship's cattle to fatten, in 

 October, which afterwards sold for forty pounds 

 each in April. This profit, however, is double 

 what is commonly obtained ; the gain in 



