In icii'uh the ClaTj greatly predominates, ^3 



levelling all the old fences, and filling up the ditclnes Avhere 

 they termed inconvenient angles and corner?. Then the 

 fields were squared; new ditches cut, tour feet and a half 

 wide at the top, one at the bottom, and three feet six inches 

 deep, and planted with white thorn : expense per rod two 

 shillings and three pence, exclusive of white thorn and 

 bushes. Drains were then drawn out as deep as possible by 

 the plough, dug with the common spade ten inches, then 

 with a narrow spade ten inches*, and with a small grip- 

 ping spade fourteen inches, filling the. latter trench with 

 haulm, and putting bushes on the top of it, coverino; the 

 whole with mould. Ifeath, where it can be procured, is 

 preferable. Expense per score yards four shillings and six 

 pence. Marl pits were then opened, v/heu possible, at the 

 point where four of these new ditches met, bv which the 

 distance of carting was reduced ; and with a few posts and 

 rails the fences were made good, and a permanent pond of 

 water secured to each tleld, after the marl carting was 

 finished. Eigiity loads was the quantity per acre, at two 

 pounds twelve shillings and six pence per hundred loads. 



This marl was spread on the old sour grass, and left to 

 be pulverized by the \\inter's frost, and incorporated with 

 the surface by the feet of the cattle and sheep. Early in the 

 spring the lands^ thus prepared, received one clean deep 

 ploughing, and were drilled with oats; produce about thir- 

 teen quarters per acre. The second year drilled with peas ; 

 produce seven quarters and a half per acre ■: ever since 

 which time they liave been cropped reaularly, and the pro^ 

 duce has been immense. That the Board may form an ae^ 

 curate idea of the advantage derived from converting tliese 

 old grass lands into tillage, I shall slate the value of the 

 farm per annum when I purchased it, and the money I 

 gave for it; then the sum T received for mv improvements; 

 the rent at which I let it on a twenty-one years' lease; and 

 the price I received for it when sold. There were two hundred 

 and thirty-five acres, valued at one hundred and twenty 

 pounds per annum, (the tenant paying twenty pounds a year 

 land tax) and the price I paid for it'three thousand three 

 liundred pounds. I received for mv improvements, of the 

 tenant five hundred ptninds, besides three hundred and fifty 

 pounds whieti the old pollard trees sold for; let the farm 

 for two hundred and twenty pounds, tiie tenant paving 

 twenty pounds a year land tax, and covenanting to keep afi 



Fn the old glass lands the sod \v,is reversed and placed over lo the 

 l)OUom drain, wlii.h formed :in effectual co^p^iI1y. 



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