8G PLANTING. 



who may y or unproductive land to plant it, for a present 



benefit to the unemployed labourer, and as an accumulating capital for 



mgor branches of his family and posterity, as well as for the general 

 good of iiis country. 



<.\ inu r statements will shew that the cost of preparing the dif- 

 ferent ie nature and properties described at pages 48, 49, and 50 

 of thi- nd numbered 3, 4, 5, 6, for planting forest-trees in the 



uinner, that is to say, by paring and burning the coarse surface, 

 trenching, draining, and manuring when expedient, and afterwards taking 



u fallow, or ameliorating esculent crop as a precursor to the forest- 

 . will be repaid by a judicious choice and culture of the kind of 

 crop best adapted to the soil, and the produce of which is in a greater 

 local request. It may be perhaps unnecessary to observe here, that the 

 nature of different varieties of soil, comprehending their texture, chemical 

 properties, the nature of the subsoil or mineral stratum on which they are 

 incumbent, and their local climate and site, have all a great and active 

 influence in determining the probable cost of the culture of the crops best 

 adapted to be raised or cultivated upon them. 



The local demand for the produce of particular species of husbandry 

 crop* have also a considerable influence on the comparative marketable 

 value of these crops: hence it is impracticable to make a perfectly clear 

 comparative estimate of value of different crops in the present case appli- 

 cable to every different soil, unless those different circumstances alluded to 

 under which each is placed were accurately known; but which, under 

 ordinary circumstances, may be readily ascertained in the locality. The 

 potato, Swedish turnip, cabbage, carrots, mangel worzel, khol rabi, tares, 

 or vetches, &c., have each a superior local value, according to circum- 



9, besides that of their absolute or intrinsic value generally, as crops 

 in husbandry. We may take the first-mentioned crop, therefore, as an 

 example, its culture, comparative value as a fallow-crop, and the 

 marketable value of its produce being, perhaps, more generally under- 

 stood than that of the others. The soil is, taken of a second-rate quality, 

 worth a rent of from fifteen to twenty shillings per acre. 



. s. d. 



I' -ring and burning . . 1 16 



Trenching . . . 400 



Diainini-- or grubbing up . 15 



Potato Mtfl or >ei-d, Jo' bushels 1 



at i.v. <;,/. . . f ' 



Planting, ditto . . . 1G 



I Ii-ing and earthing up . 16' 



ing . . . 1 10 



10 17 



o' tons of potatoes from a virgin soil,"! 



prepared by p.-iring, burning, and [> . 13 4 



trenching, at U* , . 



iiiing . . . . 2 7 <> 



after preparing the soil in the best manner for planting, to go towards 



C the purchase of plants and planting, as in the case of lands 



to the crown, or, in other cases, towards the charges of rent, 



tal laid out in fencing, payment of tithes, taxes, and other 



public imposts. 



