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Produce and expense per acre of No. 1 : 



Expense. 



£ ». d. 

 Forty loads of black earth from an adjoining swamp 



at one shilling per load 2 



Cutting five crops and making them into hay at eight 



shillings 2 



£4 



Two first crops value at five cwt. hay each, or 2 



Three crops in hay 2 



Fourth crop in hay 1 4 



Fifth estimated at 1 



£6 4 



Six tons four cwt. at 2s. 6d 15 10 



Expenses above 4 



Profit £11 10 



" There are so many vacant spots in this piece, owing to its being 

 too thinly seeded, that I am satisfied that had I sown the lucern 

 alone at the rate of 20 pounds instead of eight pounds to the acre, 

 the produce would have been at least one-third more, though T 

 believe 11 pounds 10 shillings per acre, after paying for manur- 

 ing and all expenses, will be deemed sufficient profit to justify the 

 culture of this in preference to any other grass." 



Plot No. 2, sown in 1798, was on sandy soil and a failure. No. 

 3 of the same year was a three-acre plot sown to oats, and on May 

 1st given eight pounds of clover and eight pounds of lucern to the 

 acre. The oats yielded 64 bushels to the acre and lodged so badly 

 that both the clover and lucern were killed and the stubble 

 ploughed. Of plot No. 4 (1793) he says: 



"This is part of the same field. Ploughed twice for barley; 

 once last autumn; once early in April; sown with barley about 

 the 20th. Sowed the next day two acres of this ground with 



