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and clover, the uſes of which valuable graſs are now uni- erſally felt and acknowledged, is applied upon rich lands, chiefly to be cut green, and given to horſes and other ſtock of the farm. A great quantity, however, is made into hay, both for ſale and home conſampt.

In the Carſe lands much barley 18 cultivated; and 1s thought to be of a quality equal to any in the iſland. The grain in the upland parts of the county is of a much infe« rior quality» as a proof of which the Sheriff of the coun- ty, when annzally ſtriking the fiars, rates the barley under three claſſes, v?2. 1. Carſe: 2. Dryfield*: 3.'Moorland: the difference of. price being from 5 to 20 per cent. between theſe claſſes,)

Oats are more ſeldom ſowed than formerly. Farmers ſow no more on the beſt lands than what ſuflices to feed their horſes, and to grind into meal for the uſe of their fa- milies-

Peaſe and Beans, owing to changeable weather, and a wet and cold climate and ſoil, are very little cultivated in the higher parts of the county; but form a very valuable part of the produce of the Carſe-lands. Beans are ſeldom ſow- ed without a mixture of peaſe, in the proportion of a third or a fourth. It is obſerved by the farmer, that peaſe ſown in this manner anſwer two purpoſes; they ſerve for making ropes to bind the ſheaves in time of harveſt; and the ſtraw or haulm makes a better fodder for cattle, than that of beans only. The late kind 15 ſowed in the middle of March, or beginning of April; the daſlings kind about the end of April; but the wetneß of the ſpring, in this climate, gene- rally precludes early fowing. The cultivation of beans has been attempted in drills, and in ſome favourable ſeaſons have produced crops, amounting to I1 bolls per acre: but in general the prattice does not ſucceed, owing, it 15 belie-

ved,

* A name commonly given to the dry grounds adjvining to the Carſe.