28O Mr. RuMon's Farm and Plantations. 



a field which had borne an admirable crop of 

 wheat, and which was cut in August, was im- 

 mediately ploughed for another crop of the 

 same grain. The prodigious quantity of grass 

 which it immediately produced caused a delay 

 in sowing the wheat, that the abundant herbage 

 might be fed off with cattle ; and it is now re- 

 ploughing for the seed : had 1 not had an 

 opportunity of seeing it, I should have deemed 

 such a statement apocryphal. 



The Swedish turnips were good the white 

 ones tolerable, though imperfectly hoed and 

 cleaned. Mr. Ruxton stated that it was his 

 intention to put his farm into a regular rotation 

 of cropping, and to give it a proper cleaning. 

 By carrying this wise resolution steadily into 

 effect, he will, by such an example, not only 

 render an essential service to his neighbourhood, 

 but materially benefit himself. 



The thriving plantations on Mr. Ruxton's 

 estate are all of his own rearing, and were 

 planted about thirty years ago. 



By means of locks in various parts of the 

 river, the Boyne is made navigable from Navan 

 to Drogheda, where the distilleries and a con- 

 siderable trade in grain have recently made the 



