28 Farming of Lancashire. 



Fall of marl . . 64 cubic yards. 



1 cubic yard weighs . 32 cwt. 



128 

 192 



1 fall = . . 2048 cwt. 



^ „ = . . 1024 „ 



1^ „ = . . 3072 ,, or 153 tons 12 cwt. to the acre. 

 1 waggon takes ... 23 cwt. 



134 „ ... 3072 „ 



One horse will draw 35 waggons a day, generally taking 2 wag- 

 gons at a time, in summer; the marlpit being a quarter of a mile 

 from the moss-field. 



35 waggons X 4 days = 140 waggons. 



2 men in pit 4 days, at 2s. ^d. 



2 men in iield, spreading, &c. 4 days at 2s. 6d. 



1 boy driver ..... 



1 horse ...... 



Oil and extras 



1 fall and ^, or 96 cubic yards of marl, at 7d. per yard 2 16 

 which is about the price; for it does not take quite 4 days, nor 

 140 waggons ; and therefore the cost of draining and marling, with 

 about 153 tons of marl, one customary acre of 7 J yards to the 

 perch, is 41. ISs., being about 3Z. per statute acre. 



To carry all the water from the extensive area of Rawcliffe- 

 moss, and others adjoining, it has been necessary to open a large 

 dyke 5 or 6 miles long. This little canal is made by a circuitous 

 course to fall into Morecambe Bay, passing through Pilling ; but 

 so flat is the country, that it has not more than 7 or 8 inches of 

 fall in a mile. The cost of keeping this dyke clear is paid by the 

 proprietors, through whose lands it successively passes. 



The moss-land is found to produce the best potatoes of any 

 known ; and whilst in other soils the failure of this crop has been 

 a total or partial loss to the cultivator, the moss-farmer is reaping 

 an abundant harvest. On the customary Lancashire acre he can 



£. s. d. 

 60 loads of large potatoes at 105. . . . 30 

 20 „ small ,, 7s. . . . 7 



37 

 One load being equal to 240 lbs. ; and the above price is taken 

 from the average of the first six weeks of this year in Garstang 

 market. The present price is 13s. (jd. 



