1803. J^gricultural InteHigcnce-^Englamt, ii*j 



fnne inches, and at about 4s. 6d. or 5s. an acre of expence. In the 

 Winter feafon, many farmers who have wet land employ fome of their 

 men in land-ditching or furfacedraining, A new invention, or plan of 

 performing this operation, has lately ftarted up, by means of what is 

 called a mole-plough, which makes an aperture in the earth about 

 twenty inches below the furface, fufficlent to take the water off. Stock 

 of all kinds is dear. Hogs are this feafon chiefly fatted upon barley 

 meal, it being the cheapeft food, and are fold at about 12s. 6d. 2 

 fcore. January i^ih. 



Lincohijhire ^tarterly Report, 



The drainage of our fens and low lands does not go forward with fo 

 much expedition as could be wifhed, though every perfon is thoroughly 

 convinced, that the plan and report thereof given in by John Rennie 

 Efq. is admirably calculated to anfwer the intended purpofe in the moft 

 complete and effeAual manner. A fcarcity of hands, and a want of ex- 

 ertion in fome individuals concerned, have retarded a work longer than 

 cxpcfted, which eventually muft prove vaftly beneficial to the interefl: of 

 this county, and the numerous individuals who have a right to the lands'* 

 now under this mode of improvement. 



The grain markets are dull ; but thofe for flieep and cattle prefent 

 every profpcdl of maintaining high prices. Land rents continue upon 

 the rife, though fufpicions may be entertained that the new fets will 

 not ftand the teft of time. Some of the ground fold by the fen com- 

 miinoners for defraying the charge of ferH:es and buildings, has drawn 

 forty pounds per acre in its natural (late ; but this perhaps is an inftance 

 of the whimfical difpofition of mankind. A great many enclofure bills 

 are going forward here ; and attendance upon meetings about fuch bu- 

 fincfs occupies a confiderable (hare of the time of our chief men of bu- 

 finefs 1 "jth 'January, 



Norfolk ^lavterly Report, 



Notwithstanding the heavy crop of corn to be carried lad har- 

 vell, the whole was fecured expeditioufly, and a rcafonable hope was af- 

 forded, that we would enjoy an early and favourable feafon for wheat 

 fowing. On lands which had been Summer-fallowed this was the cafe ; 

 but the fyilem of fallowing, or, in the diale<fl of the country, * giving 

 a thorough Summer tilth for wheat, * being now univerfally exploded, 

 (though 1 am firmly perfuaded it will frequently be found neceffary to 

 recur to the praclice of the old fchool in this particular), and fowing 

 upon the flag being very generally adopted, the long drought during 

 harveft, and for fome weeks afterwards, precluded the poflibility of 

 breaking up for a confiderable time the two years leas for wheat ; and 

 confequently, this operation was obliged to be deferred, in many cafes, 

 till the feafon for fowing was far advanced, and fears, not very unreafon- 

 able, were entertained, that, Ihould the Winter fct in early and fevere, 

 the plants might be materially injured, before they had obtained fulfi- 

 cient ftrength of root to refill the attacks of hard froll. Providence, 



TOL. IV. NO, xiii. P however, 



