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out-summer fallow of the arable land, nor of the year's rent, 

 poors' rates, and taxes for that year ; neither is there any 

 charge made for restoring the land to its previous state from 

 whence the turf-plants were taken : consequently there may 

 be a very considerable additional charge made against the 

 transplanted pasture. 



Mr. Whitworth states the expense of the operative part of 

 this process, per acre, to be 2/. 45., and gives the following- 

 details from his own minutes on the business. About 180 

 sods, of nine square inches, will be equal to one bushel 

 measure, and 240 bushels will be equal to eight cart loads, 

 which, at the rate of about nine sods to a square yard, will 

 plant one acre of land. A man will cut with ease one 

 bushel of sods in eight minutes ; and two children in twelve 

 minutes will gather them, put them into the cart, and assist 

 him to plant that quantity ; the whole time being twenty 

 minutes. The planting will be at the rate of three bushels 

 per hour, consequently, the day of ten hours will plant 

 thirty bushels, and eight days will finish one acre. 



£. s. d. 



One man eight days, at 2s. per day 16 



Two children eight days, at 6c?. per day 8 



Carting turf, if near at hand 10 



Total per acre £1 14 



But should the turf for transplanting have to be carted 

 from a distance, the expense would be proportionally in- 

 creased. 



Having had an opportunity of examining some pasture 

 land on the Duke of Bedford's estates, near Endsleigh, 

 Devonshire, which, by the Duke's desire, had been formed 

 by transplanting, I requested Mr. John Forrester, who con- 

 ducted the work, to give me an account of the results ; this 

 he favoured me with, in a valuable communication. Mr. For- 

 rester laid down to permanent pasture a field of sixteen 

 acres ; one half of the field was transplanted according to 

 the mode above described, and the other half was sown 



