APPENDIX. 



SELECT FARMS. 



I. &quot; A little beyond Courtray is a farm particularly noticed by Mr. Radcliffe. 

 This farm is one of the finest and most compact we have seen. It consists of 

 about one hundred and forty acres, of which about twenty are fine meadows 

 along the river, occasionally flooded in winter, but not irrigated ; about ten 

 acres are rich heavy land, adjoining the meadows, in which beans and wheat 

 thrive well ; all the remainder, about one hundred and six acres, lie in an oblong 

 field bounded by a hedgerow. A road or path, six feet wide, runs through the 

 middle of the field. The soil of this field is a rich light loam, which lies over a 

 substratum of clay, but at such a depth as to be perfectly sound and dry. It is 

 not extremely fertile in its own nature, but has been rendered so by many years 

 of an improving husbandry. Every part of the land has been repeatedly trenched 

 and stirred two or three feet deep ; and the immense quantity of manure, chiefly 

 liquid, put on year after year, has converted the whole into a very rich mould. 

 The strength and vigor of the crops bear witness to the goodness of the hus 

 bandry. There were fifteen acres of most beautiful flax, of a bright straw color, 

 and the stems a yard long. This, besides the seed, was worth in the stack from 

 twenty-five pounds to thirty pounds per acre ; twelve acres of colza had produced 

 about four hundred bushels of seed ; eighteen acres of oats looked so promising, 

 that they could not be set at less than forty-five bushels per acre ; eighteen acres 

 of wheat, which stood well with short but plump ears, we valued at forty bushels 

 per acre; eighteen acres of rye, partly cut, with the straw above six feet high, 

 would probably produce rather more than the wheat. There were six acres of 

 white poppy, of which every plant was strong and upright, and the ground under 

 it as clean as a garden : the expected produce would be about twenty to twenty- 

 three bushels per acre ; six acres were in potatoes, expected to produce three 

 hundred and seventy-eight bushels per acre. A small patch, about an acre, 

 was in carrots, which looked fine ana large ; twelve acres were in clover, nearly 

 the whole of which was cut green to give to the cows and horses ; it produces 

 three good cuts in the year where it is not allowed to go to seed. The ten 

 acres of heavy land were partly in beans and partly in wheat. 



&quot; Thus we have one hundred and sixteen acres all profitably cropped, leaving 

 four acres for the roads and farm-buildings. Although this farm is within two 



