36 Management of strojig tret Locans 



pended about two hundred more in similar improvements. 

 Freciselv the same svstcm was adopted by these spirited 

 farmers tor improving these lands, as I have before given the 

 particulars of in the account of the estate I purchased ; and 

 3. recapitulation would be protracting this essay, which I 

 wish should contain, in the most concise and plain terms, 

 &s great a mass of information as I am capable of furnish- 

 ing. As his grace the duke of Richmond, with that exact- 

 ness which marks his conduct in all matters of business, 

 has furnished mc with an account of his experiment, at- 

 tested by his signature, I should not feel myself justitied in 

 deviating from'^it, even in form, but shall transmit it in the 

 very words in which I received it : "I do certify, that some 

 years ago above fifty acres of land that I wish.cd to convert 

 from tiliasc into pasture, which had been attempted several 

 times by "the common mode of sowing grass seeds with 

 corn, without success, were (after tv/o years successive tur- 

 nips ltd oif ) sown with hay seeds in a very large proportion, 



in August, without corn, as advised by the Rev. Mr. ; 



and the result was, two crops of hay the first year ; one esti- 

 mated at two tons per acre, and the other at one ton and a 

 half. The land has since been dressed with old mortar 

 and other manures occasionally, and the permanent im- 

 provement on the value of the land is estimated to amount 

 to at least fiftcri shillings per acre*. 



'• Jan. 23, iSoi. (Signed) "^ Richmond." 



These experiments exactly correspond in their result 

 with those which I have stated from my own practice ; and 

 being; made in dilTerenl situations, tliey seem to be conclu^ 

 sive on the most injportant subjects selected by the Board 

 as objects of their premiums. The characters of the no- 

 blemen under the sanction of whose approbation I have 

 given you the particulars of the two last experiments, stand 

 too hi'oh in the estimatiori of the country for honour, vera- 

 city, and minute exactness in every transaction of the least 

 importance, to need any encomium from me. l"or the par- 

 ticular management of these experiments I siiali refer you 

 to those similar ones made upon my own lands, from whicli 

 "no variation, was made except in the mode of draining the 

 duke of Richmond's lands ; which, to the best of my recol- 

 lection, were made with bricks. Though the query re- 

 specting the utility of draining may be supposed in effect to 



? By a letter previously received from the ciuke of Richmond, his grace 

 informed mc this yas exactly double ib.c value of the land. 



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