Jo Iwprcvemenis carrying on at Ca'ithiefs in 1 8o2. Feb. 



exceeding 4500 acres, is now in the fame train. An oppor* 

 tunity is thus afforded, of providing for the fmaller tenants, 

 xvho mud be removed, where farms are enlarged ; and al- 

 {0 of fettling any diibanded foldiers, and others, who may 

 be inclined to cultivate waftes at home, inftead of flying 

 to the wilds of America. 



!. The moO: extenfive experiment tried, in cultivating wafle 

 land this year, and fuccefsfully carried through, was as fol- 

 lows : On the 7th of April lait, five men from Weftmore- 

 land, accuftomed to paring and burning, began to pare, 

 with the breaU-plough, a tra61: of common containing a- 

 about 80 Scotch acres. A fufhcient number of hands were, 

 at the fame time, employed in furrounding the whole with a 

 ditch, and fubdividing it by crofs drains, into four enclo- 

 fures. In fuch a feafon, when hardly a peat could be got 

 fufficiently dry for ufe, it was impolfible to expedf, that the 

 land, thus pared, could be burnt in proper time for crop- 

 ping. However, by great exertions, in the fhort fpace of 

 about five months, the whole 80 acres were pared, burnt, 

 inclofed, fubdivided, ploughed, and partly fown with rape, 

 turnips, &c. The ground thus brought into cultivation, 

 was fet up to auction, to fee what it would fetch ; and was 

 let, on a leafe for 21 years, for 20 fliillings per acre; with 

 an increafe of 5 fliillings per acre, at the end of the firfl ten 

 years. The expence of this improvement may be thus efti- 

 mated ; 



1. Paring and burning per Englifh acre - L. i 17 o 



2. Spreading the aflies - - 030 



3. Ploughing for feed - - o 10 o 



4. Harrowing for ditto - - 030 



5. Enclofing and fubdividing into fields of il\ 



Englifh acres each, with a ditch and a 



fed wall - - - o 15 o 



Total per Englifh acre - L. 3 8 

 6. One fifth additional, to afcertain the expcnce 



pel* Scotch acre, - - o 13 



Total per Scotch acre - L. 4 i 6 



— In a favourable feafon, the firft crop would have paid 

 ^11 the ejppence, both of the cultivation and enclofure j bui 



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