216 Reclamation of Bog and Moorland in Galway. 
turnips. . The potatoes were poor ; the turnips yielded 10 tons- 
to the statute acre. The next crop, oats, not manured, yielded 
10 cwt. to the acre : Italian and perennial ryegrass, with Timoth\- 
and cocksfoot, were sown with the oats, and cut two years for 
hay, yielding good crops without a top-dressing. The first year 
there were 14, and the second year 11 tram-cocks to the acre, 
each weighing 12 to 14 cwt. of hay when carried to the rick. 
The grass was cut at the end of June, and carried to the rick- 
yard in August. The grass then failed, yielding a miserable 
crop the third year. It was ploughed up June 1876, and 
received 150 bushels of lime and 6 to 8 tons of dung per acre. 
At the end of July it was sown with rape and grass-seeds. In 
June 1877 there Avas a fair crop, which was cut green for 
horses, about 18 inches high and rather thin on the ground. 
The next township of Addergoole had a considerable amount 
of labour and capital expended upon it, before it passed into 
Mr. Henry's possession. It contains 958 acres, and was pur- 
chased soon after the famine by Mr. Eastwood, an Englishman, 
who built himself a house, a lodge, and some very substantial 
farm-buildings. From the size of the buildings it must be con- 
cluded that he contemplated the reclamation of a much larger 
extent of land than what he brought under cultivation. A large 
quadrangle is surrounded by stables, sheds, and other buildings, 
fit for 500 acres of arable land. In the centre of the side opposite 
to the entrance gate there is a large barn built in the shape of a 
cross, 60 feet long in each direction. These buildings were 
erected with some of the stones from the ruins of a deserted 
village ; the rest of the stones were used to fill up the bed of a 
small river which Mr. Eastwood diverted, and to Ibrm the bank 
of the new cut. He reclaimed 60 acres of land in the old river- 
bed, a gravel soil resting upon peat. After levelling the land, 
he planted part of it and laid the rest down to grass. He also 
reclaimed 30 acres of deep bog ; the work was done well but 
expensively, although at that time wages were only 5*. per week. 
At the present time wages are 9^. a week. We may well wonder 
how the poor fellows could manage to live upon 5s. a week, 
but, as one of them explained, with pathetic humour, " When 
all's ate the dinner's over." Mr. Henry has already brought 
20 additional acres into cultivation, and has commenced the 
drainage of 100 acres more. 
The chief accommodation for live-stock is at Addergoole, Of 
horses there are 29 on the estate ; only 6 of these are kept for 
farm work, but occasional help is given by carriage-horses or 
old pensioners. Three pairs of oxen have been kept for ploughing, 
and the best workers have been found to be those crossed with 
the Alderney — small, active, and very tractable. About 130 other 
