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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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‘ 2 within its wer some of those periodically 
flooded lands, provineially called Turloughs, ok 
— e consist of alluvial soil of the finest quality, 
the silt and for ages 
and covered with a thick sward of Grass, which by 
thes close wath which it * been eaten indicates 
ma 
of these 
ich by bursting to the — 
passages, mee app 
endered them 
will permanen — 
from the water, w 
from limestone undergroun 
low lands to a — extent, and r 
less, except in — 
ur tourist — inspected a farm of 500 acre 
P ; 
within three miles of the 2 end of Lough Corrib. 
act 
of a limestone country, | suc 
Lord Lucan in — extensive occupation and culti- 
vation of their o n lands. But a would be of vast 
rtance to themselves, their ntry, and their 
eat landlo a on a both sides of the 
e degree to emulate him in the 
nal study and stanton which he devotes to the 
Ho business of his estates 
i abouring poor that Lord Lucan 
of the soil, 
for if, like the Ea t 
ed tillage, 
vail 3 ia tt the 
tural management of an i 
where the soil and 5 — are ger T for 
But neither ny gene 
their amount, the t by aiga 
removable. 
The. idos of — ian outrages is, after 2 one of 
the most seriou stacles in the way of a 
re ow but the stone walls are ion (we of 8 meditating the e of land there; but though 
even more than usually age piin and go The | themselves), and to the 8 f = s is as yet a sufficient motive 850 ison 
greater part of this farm is th est feeding land labour. Lord Lucan, however, proposes to let 80 men or any strangers from 
for sheep and cattle—dry, friable, 3 land, | of his por 3 oonagashel and Gallows- Tipperary—that lege of the ‘isha — 
on limestone. The fields of rich old Grass are hill are thus desc ‘A considerable part of | obstacle in — exists, or has existe 
eur to anything: e have, exeopt i in one pidm, both ‘ache farms (within two piles. a allinrobe) naug recol Ried are chiefly held 
any pariak t present remember. e which are nearly 2 es i nder | by the e thet age aaa or by non-resi 
test of it is too g > tillage, but —— 3 tillage; nearly all of it is divided into b en- | graziers, and the e are peaceable, and intelli- 
of it 8 xn profitably 2 hone the . closures, with excellent stone and lime walls. Th t, and willing k if properly looked after, 
The sre and poo then grazing on it were ex- n. — partly of a fertile black mould, of great here is (we unwillingly conclude our remarks of 
This is 5 — — the th, with some stronger this excellent —— room his country for 
ce 
neighbourhood did aot tat so . as in any 
of thos h I had p ted.. The pro- 
; an 
the w 
h Lough Co: 7 we 
ds adjacent to this Lough 
oa of intercourse will 
pee 0 pass s 
of the soil which Mr. Car 
mined in his day’s 
r pans depth of 
el under- 
s [the average 
two farm- 
d , lately constructed 8 Be ee | ras 
Two e farms 700 t 
or thre na fro 
—5 "Of land, — he got her caper ie sey 
of Eas t Lothian, ERAN of 18s. the 
aperia acre, and ‘the poor-rate guaranteed not to 
ls. per 17. The tenant must also pay the 
county — but Lord Lucan ha — his farms over 
to bis tenants with e very permanen 
l so that the farmer may have 
his farm.” 
appears, also, that capitalists who may desire 
to take 3 farms = e e ely wild 5 near 
eee 
t improvem 
coking: to 
the t, may e it on very cheap t 
That Bene 3 and Bo a la ian "Sir 
L, who had to contend with bo ogs, 
has 
heaths, mountains, 2 the rude no of the Atlan- 
ters are mild, and| tic (though his own residence, near Newport, is 
the 9 870 most e os rass and green crops ;| low and Welters d by woods and the curvature of 
the soil is in every wa’ ted for feeding of green; Clew Bay), offers 5000 a eres, within a mile of New 
crops, if 5 or for mitia sheep and cattle | port, part of it on a lease of 200 years, the rest 
for the fat market. The milk 0 butter are of the | three lives, or 31 „at an annual ant 
st quality. Labourers’ wages ar . er acre, besides the rates. The land is all situa ated! 
1 8d, to 10d. è day ; the aple most peae low elevation, rangin; from 30 to 60 or 80 feet 
mt and idle to an perd sea level ; half of it is said to be e of 
0 
ganen d degree if not 1 superintended 
vation ; ; the rest is fai 
a Bd 5 12 sie d 
all be nice oe SS : ep, 
Dont ioe re fine Bi for dusther 
7 Ach 
54. to 60%. ee 5 ; ous barn 
* 
which the land 
recovers itself, and without 
Katy 
t thick. 
has been so n spoken. £ m] 
account of the clearances which h p agea 
muc 
who formerly 
It is Pa fot me j. discuss that 
question ; but w when the a t of employment he 
e, is — 
some of the oe 
lordship to | the 
assured, rise, by a farmer 
O'Downenr? s, that fe = here produced 
weighe bs. a bushel. 
same proprietor has . of —— oh to let; 
that which lies along the sea-coast appeared to be 
ood ae ity ; and from the peculiar conformation of 
— a coast, it did no to 
‘Atlante 
is now giving, and the pct style of husband 
Practised on his farms are t 
may be doubted whether the former e og 
much by th miserable cultivation of their 
sent u patie of 
10,000 acres superintendence, 
5 stewards on $u 
ar | nat 
the d different farms, who all e 
himself. He has 
eee 
band 
Marquess of sake on well-timbered 
and 1 demesne is at W 
a year, and w a lease in 
1 on — the — 5 built his house 
This brings us, in conclusion, to ask onrse selves the 
er severe 
have not yet sueceeded in — British farmers 
ther 
skill and ent 
to the effect that Lord Luca's aea 
et is * able as to i 
3 0 
Practi 
ak at “ ae pi — er 0 an 
wonld desirable, that E n 
oiy “If the same 
imitate | on 
a very serious disadva 
opposed to British ractice. — case ia 70 ted; 
and 1 b ps Card of a Lan i i eie his | 
1. 8 . 
uildings, in 
n employed | 
ultiv 
are e e the la ndlord’s ger Pie and let them come 
nd 
ent = farn ix aaae: ihe soil 
d e N, 
Sir touc 
| tight perhaps, 3 
ys are insuffici 
o wi 
t 
— nity of the ace 
very bleak land. pared | 
with hill farar 5 the north of Scotland), landlords | sus 
ne the ma. ri 
to be to 
is | thei 
tio 
‘tract where the soil 2 climate forbid cultivation, doubt 
capital 
some of the fine . “lands of Mayo or Gideon, | 
for ¢ tion in 
to a roe ise and definite u nderstandin ng with r 
rates and taxes, 
who expen 
above all, fro e of rates, 
igher 3 ee on their i impr ovementy. 
nd specification 
a 
eattle in sanie with 308 ee W 
0 rm from 2 1 wal 
rate estimate 
ON STORING TURNIPS. 
eeing with you on f 
a little 1 attention than is commonly done to 
storing of Turnips, . only as it concerns the w 
sane atten cattle kå 
ing very severe 
may be laid for use. 
he e mo ortifyi ing from 
n a and 200 in e ge 
dition. A mere = ing bu J 
or 
‘light ¢ 
-m to repel a 8 reg sh 
many a load of Turnips have I seen, if 
cattle at all, so frozen — to adi ks bre ag 
ich perbaps is the safest plan thrown aside to 
ot when a thaw comes on, and ulti mately re 
the e 
os ete 
ne Bon, I repeat, — all very well 
E 3 os 
winter, a ths i n early Pat consumption, — 4 
sary. ere 
into distinct branches, 
H 
of Turnips 
e ort of Turnip intended to be preserve 
t serves very well for Swedes not baagan suitable 
— 5 Turnips, — 
the p 
these cases, tall which Je 
as completely efficacious and, first, of f Swedes. Í 
plans have been and still are in operation; 
y 
but it will be 9100 
| suffer materially from. the action of the 
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