Improvements in his Majejly's Farm at Wind/or, 4*^ 



J:hink the fociety for the Encourajjement of Arts, &c. from its laudable defife to cotrf- 

 nuiiiicirti' to the puWic every thing that promifes i»dvai;itage to it, would. not be un- 

 williiig to allow me a tew pages in its tiext ptiblicatioii ;■ and being indiiJgi.'J with iiu 

 Majeity.'s gracious permiflion to ftate any matter that I may difcretioiially think proper to 

 communicate, I am induced to lay before you a few particuliirs which fomc Gcntlemesa 

 ■nd farmers,, under fimilar circumftanccs, may, perhaps, think deferving notice. , ' 

 BuL before I enter upon any particular (ielcriptiou *'f what 1 have to offtr, it wi|l 

 no^, perhaps, be uninterqftmg totheixjciety to know the grovuids upon which his Majeily's 

 laige fyliem.ot agriculture has beeti founded. 



Ill the year 1791, the Great Park at Windfor, about 4000 acres, fell into his Ma- 

 j<'l^)'s poliedion.' Jt might ti;-uly be called a rough jewel. The whole, as a natural ob- 

 ject, was grand and beautitwl, of a foreft appearance; but the parts were crowded and 

 lindipiuQ;. The foil was v^ripus. Tome parts clay fwid loam, and Come fharp gravel or 

 poorfand; a great pan of the forn\erW^s f.Qveredi with ruibes and moIerhiUs, arjd the 

 latter wifh fcrnand mols. .' ; , 



About looQ acr^s of the Jighteft part were feparated from the rell at one extremity, 

 and formed what is called the Norfolk farm ; about 400 acres more at the other extra- 

 milv, lof a good loamy foil, were feparated and called the, Flemifh farm ;-.b6tii)i)eitig 

 naitiie4 from, the nature of thphiifbandry.mcatit to be adoptcdori them. ;■.. : ■ ■■_•. 



The reft_ (about !f,400;a{:re.'i) remain?!. .ftill, in plantations 4nd park, ani though. f(> 

 much reduced, yet from the im.pr<)Yeniesn|S.whicli have been njade upon-it,.is now ca- 

 pable of carrying more flock than the whole 4000 acres did before. All the unfouud 

 wet pans have been drained by the ElTex mode, fo as to be rendered- firm and produfiliv* 

 of an improved herbage. The mole-hilU have been levelled chiefly by dragging,, and 

 ^tl|e coarfe and raoffy parts fined by repeated harrowing and.riolJing. fheing one. ok" the 

 . trll; improvements upon park land of thi^ defcriptiorl) befides which a variety of beauty 

 .has-been.laidopenby clearing the valleys and low pans, to give a bolder, effiaft to tne 

 .woody fceti^s upon the higher grounds; and by jnaking judicious openings fo as to 

 break ttrait lines ajiclfeparate parts that were in (pme places too heavy and famely; ib 

 ■ that the faine extent, of land has not now only a muchJarger appearance, butexhibitsa 

 much greater variety of ground, The truth of this every impartial perfon who knew 

 the place before his Majelly cajifed thefe improvements to be made,, muft.allow. I.have 

 only to add, that the' prejudice may have taken Up., an idea that, there has-been too great 

 •,a facrifice of timber in effefting thefe improvements. truth will deny it. There has not 

 been a tree taken down but what was either in decay or removed either to give toorri fdr 

 tlic growth of others, or to fet them off to greater advantage in. piflurefque appearaii-ce; 



I come now to the object in view as before hinted, which is to flate the liiotives whtfch 

 I am inclined to think induced hi» Majelly to adopt the farming fyftem upon fo large a 



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