Cultivation of Grafs Land. Planting Situations proper for. .; 3,-j 



of the timber or other forts admit of being planted with very considerable profit ; 

 often from two or three, to eight or ten times the amount which they would afford 

 under any other method of management.* 



It has been well obfcrved, that wafte and barren lands, in mod fituations, may 

 very conveniently be improved by planting trees on them. There are few fpots 

 which would not admit of being brought into culture in this way, under particular 

 circumftances ; ?nu rhere are innumerable traces, of vaft exent, on which it would 

 be much more profitable to the owner to plant with trees, than to attempt any 

 other mode of improvement. &quot; Wherever the foil is dry and infertile, or where 

 its chief or only produce is heath, or where it is full of rocks and (tones rifmg to 

 the furface, or if it be a ftiff obdurate clay, having little furface-produce ; and in 



* Vaft improvements of this fort have been eftofted in different diftricls, and the following is 

 fluted by Mr. Young in his Eaftern Tour, vol. I. as what would be the advantage of planting in JS T ot- 

 tinghamfliire on lands of fmall value. 



On a wafte of Mr. MelliftYs, incloftxl with a ring-fence 700 acres, which could be let at 31. an 

 acre, tithe free, the following, it is fuppofed would be the cafes if a perfon hired it under a leafe of 

 thirty years : 



The raffing, planting, &c. would come to 



Rent of 700 acres for thirty years 



Reparation of fences, fuppofe - 



Intereft of .2, 1 00 for thirty years at 4 per cent. 



Total expenfe - 7,820 



Produce. Thinning in 10 years at 51. an acre * - 3,500 



Ditto in 20 years, 1,000 per acre at 6d. 251. . - 17,500 



Cut down 30 years, 2,000 per acre, at Is. or 1001. per&amp;gt;acre 70,000 



Total produce - 91,000 



Total expenfes - - 7,800 



Clear profit - 83,180 



This account is ftated in the ftyle of a common farm ; the firft expenditure, called (lock, and com 

 pound intercft, not calculated, it is very evident that no man jjoflefied of fuch foils, who can hire 

 them for twenty or thirty years under a planting leafe, need ever to be diftrefled at the idea of younger 

 childrens fortunes, or raifing larger fums of money ir future. A moderate expenditure will, he fays, 

 by planting, fecure the certain pofleflion of any fum thht may in future be wanted.&quot; 



According to this calculation 700 acres would produce in 30 year* the fum of 83,1301. 

 VOL. ii. 4 F 



