The Reporter's great object is, to convey instruction wherever he may glean it; he may therefore be excused, if he travels a little out of the county.

About one hundred acres of the lands about Carlow are parcelled out in one, two, and three acre pieces, and let generally at 10l. per acre to a number of cottagers, who supply Dublin, and most of Leinster with onions; they are all well cloathed, in comfortable habitations, and, if their industry was generally practised, the cry of the poverty of the poor Irish peasant would soon cease.

The grower of onions generally divides his little garden (if I may so call it) into fourths; his succession,

1 Onions.

2 Potatoes.

3 Bârley.

4 Clover.

He puts all the manure he can muster on his onion fourth, and he prefers street-sweepings to all other; early in March he sows his onion-seed in beds, five and a half or six feet wide; with the onions, he sows a third part of a crop of parsnips, and a small quantity of drumhead cabbage; when the onions are well up, women are put to weed; if the onions be a full crop, every parsnip is treated as a weed; if any miss of onion be on three inches, a parsnip is there suffered to grow; when the weeding

is finished, the alleys are dug deeply, and the weeds buried; the few cabbage plants, grown on the ridges, are planted in the furrows; under this management, the largest cabbages, and parsnips measuring twelve inches in circumference are grown, without interfering with the great onion crop. Here is industry; here is exertion; no price will stop the onion growers in the purchase of manure, which generally costs at the rate of two shillings per hundred.

Though the expences attending an acre manured, and treated as above, may appear enormous, the one-fourth under barley, which is generally seven barrels, will defray the whole; the fourth under onions produces 256., which leaves the farmer after the rent of the whole acre 157., besides thirty barrels of potatoes, and a rood of clover to soil his cow and horse.

The Reporter constructed, and has used for some years a machine, by which two men can lift, to a height of seventy feet, five hundred loads of hay or corn in ten hours; its expedition, and the great saving of labour and of corn, in preference to pitching up with forks, make it a most desirable object, and its cheap construction brings it within the compass of every farmer.

In a strong ground framing of timber, nine feet long, and six wide, two thighs or upright pieces, twenty feet long, ten inches square, six feet asunder

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at bottom, and two feet and a half at top, are inserted; at top they are connected by a broad flat piece, through which a hole of one foot diameter is in centre ; a pole thirty fect high, with a gudgeon at bottom, is raised between the thighs, and admitted through the hole by an opening in the side, which is to be clapped close when the pole is placed; on the top of the pole (or mast) a yard-arm, twenty feet long, six inches square, is placed at an equal length at either end from top of mast, braced from the points to the mast above the neck; in either end of yard a pully is placed, a strong line rope is made fast to one end of yard, it passes through a loose moveable pully with a hook, and then goes over both pullies of the arm, and passes down to a pully at foot of mast, and thence either to a capstern worked by two men at some distance, or by a rack and pinion placed between the thighs. A car, carrying five hundred weight, is brought to the loose pully; the load tied in a bundle, by crossing the ropes; if in a smooth way, it will need no other tying; if in an uneven road, a yard of rope to the car-shaft will attach the other rope, that ties the load in a bundle; the hook of the loose pully is put in the rope at the top of the bundle by the driver, who gives the word away, and in half a minute the load is raised twenty feet high; a slight line hangs from the yardarm to near the ground, and by it the load is guided

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