ALLOTMENT SYSTEM. 83 



&quot;As various questions will naturally suggest themselves to 

 those who read this statement, the following answers, by the 

 schoolmaster, to numerous inquiries already made, are inserted 

 here : 



i REPLY OF THE MASTER TO INQUIRIES RESPECTING THIS SCHOOL. 



&quot; I have twenty scholars, to whom I teach reading, writing, 

 and accounts, the Church Catechism, Collects, and Psalmody on 

 the national plan, with the approbation of the vicar, without any 

 salary, for one penny per week from each boy, from nine to 

 twelve o clock j and from two till five in the afternoon cultiva 

 ting the land. I have not lost one from dissatisfaction, but I am 

 glad to say that they willingly assist me. 



&quot; l I am satisfied that I can keep two cows on the same quantity 

 of ground, stall-fed, where I could keep but one if I allowed her 

 to graze ; and grow more corn. 



&quot; l I have no grass land, and all the first winter my cows had 

 only straw, turnips, and mangel-wurzel, till green food came on in 

 the spring ; and now my hay is the clover I sowed with the grain 

 crop last year. 



&quot; I have experienced a great deal of good from the liquid 

 manure from the two tanks, one from the cows and the other 

 from the pigs. 



&quot; I have just killed a pig weighing twenty-nine stone seven 

 pounds, and one before about the same weight, which I have 

 used in my family. I have a wife and four children. 



&quot; It is allowed that my oats are the best sample in the parish. 

 1 tied my oats in sheaves, and set them up the same as wheat, 

 which saves a great deal of scattering : this is the general prac 

 tice in Cornwall and Scotland, and, I hear, in some parts of 

 Kent, and is particularly useful for barley to malt. 



&quot; * I thrash my corn over the cow-house, as in Cornwall, 

 Switzerland, &c., which keeps it perfectly dry, being thus kept 

 from the damp ground. 



&quot; I am entirely supplied with water by the rain which falls on 

 the house, preserved in a tank in the ground. 



&quot; { The quantity of land I rent is five acres, on the side of the 

 South Downs, at 3 an acre ; this with 5 for my house, 

 makes 20, which I have paid for the year ending Michael- 



