permanent Improvements at Reynella. 269 



in lazy beds. Is it not wonderful that the 

 production of a crop, which may be considered 

 4Kthe staff of life in Ireland, should at this day 

 be so little understood ? 



Mr. Reynell, about twenty years since con- 

 stnicted a water meadow of fourteen acres: 

 the work was judiciously performed, but it 

 is at present a little out of repair. Early in 

 May the grass is cut for hay, by which prac- 

 tice the depasturage for at least a month or 

 five weeks, up to the time cf cutting, is 

 lost an important consideration where there 

 is so much stock, and an inadequate supply of 

 green food. The produce of an acre of Swe- 

 dish turnips preserved till May in Cumberland, 

 may be valued at forty or fifty pounds, on a 

 comparison with hay. The young stock bred 

 on the farm are very promising, and do great 

 credit to the bailiff, who has lived very many 

 years in the family, and appears to unite great 

 practical knowledge as a farmer, with much 

 zeal and an ardent attachment to the persons 

 and interests of his employers. 



The survey of this establishment afforded 

 me much pleasure : great indeed was the loss 

 of the proprietor who originally projected the 

 system which has been persevered in, during a 



