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years of the lease. There are several small holdings in Corrie 

 of less annual rent than L.12. In these c ases the proprietor has 

 always furnished the lime himself, and charged the tenants the 

 moderate rate of interest of 5 per cent. 



The application of lime has varied in quantity, but the average 

 quantity applied has been, we believe, about 75 Carlisle bushels 

 per acre. This is equal to 225 imperial bushels, or about 9| tons. 

 The price of lime at Blackwoodridge has been lid. per bushel 

 for many years, and the cartage, when let, would cost the tenants 

 about 8d. Thus the price of the lime, when laid on the land, 

 would be Is. 7d. per bushel, or L.5, 18s. 9d. per acre, wherever 

 75 Carlisle bushels have been applied. Part of the lime put 

 upon the farms on the Corrie estate was brought from Cumber- 

 land by railway to Lockerbie, and carted the remainder of the 

 distance. This lime has varied in price, but, including cartage, 

 it has cost about L.6, 12s. lOd. per acre, when 75 bushels were 

 applied, which is 13s. lid. per acre more than the lime from 

 Blackwoodridge. Mr Jardine does not allow any part of the 

 price of lime applied to arable land. 



Exclusive of lime supplied to tenants of small possessions, the 

 quantity applied to meadow and pasture land during the current 

 leases, the most of which, as remarked above, are dated from 

 Whitsunday 1854, has been about 102,000 Carlisle bushels, or 

 at 8 Carlisle bushels to the ton, 12,750 tons. This, at 9f tons 

 per acre, would lime about 1400 acres of land. 



The improvements on this estate, the rental of which we may 

 remark is entered in the Valuation Poll at about L.4000, have 

 not been confined to draining and liming. The dwelling-houses 

 and farm-steadings have been greatly renovated and extended, 

 and this has been done in such a way as to give the tenants the 

 accommodation necessary for the proper carrying on of their 

 various modes of management. No interest is charged on build- 

 ings, the only exception being hay barns, to which reference is 

 made in the section on grain crops. Plantations have been 

 laid out of considerable extent, and these have chiefly been 

 enclosed by stone walls affording immediate shelter. Water 

 courses have also been improved, and occupation roads made and 

 repaired. 



The reporter leaves the above facts, for the correctness of which 

 he can vouch, to speak for themselves. They speak volumes 

 regarding the enlightened liberality of the landlord, who is well 

 represented in the person of his intelligent and active factor, Mr 

 Andrew Glover. The best proof that this "high farming" is 

 satisfactory in a financial point of view, is furnished by the fact 

 that the allowances of lime covenanted for in the leases have in 

 almost all cases been exceeded, and that the applications made 

 for further grants have in no instance been refused by the pro- 



