462 ^JCi'^ en the Realities of Afofs anfiuercd. Nov. 



whole amounting to 201. Thefe new families, fuppofing them to 

 have cultivated only two acves of wafte land each, have added 154 

 acres ci (-'.iltivatcd land to the eftate ; and I underRand, one of 

 them received lately 28I. to give up his little fettlement to a per- 

 fon who wanted to dwell there. I heard of no emigrations of the 

 people on the eftate, except one man, who repented and return- 

 ed. I found about 300 acres of plantation of larch and fir 

 trees In a very thriving condition, in a country deflitute of wood. 

 Many of the tenants are now lodged in hcufes built with ftonc In 

 place of earth, whicli formerly was the material whereof their ha- 

 bitations were com-pofcd. 



I faw a Me^idoivbank tjiidden or two on the edate ; and it gives 

 rae pleafure to notice, that this compoft will be of fmgular advan- 

 tage in the improvement of the Highlands. It. is only of partial 

 utility in other parts of Scotland j but in the northern dillri£ts, 

 ■where every tenant has accefs to peat eartli, it will prove an uni- 

 verfal benefit, and tend more than any thing to extend the culti- 

 vated land, by quadrupling the manure. — With belt wiflies for the 

 fuccefs of your Magazine, I am, 



Yours, S^c, X. y. 



TO THE CONDUCTOR OF THE FARMERS MAGAZINE. 



^leries concerning M.ojs anfiuered. 

 Sir, 



As no Other of your correfpondents, better acquainted with 

 the fubjeft, have anfwered the query of R. C. in your Ma^a- 

 i^ine of May I'.ft, ' Which is the beft fort of peat mofs for 

 manure?' I prefume to anfwer, from my obfervation, that of 

 the three forts defcribed by him, the wood mofs is the beft. 

 The black peat, principally cornpofed of heath, decayed ^phag-^ 

 num, and the roots of the eriophora, is next. And the fpongy 

 flow-mofs, or red-bog, as It is Called in Ireland, derived almolb 

 entirely from more recent fphagnum; is the woril for every pur- 

 pofe of manure or fuel. 



A. S. 



BRANCH 



