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reftraint laid upon the labourer, with refpeft to the 

 breadth of the drain, fmce it is fufficiently underftood, 

 that labourers can make more progrefs when allowed 

 fufficient room to work, than when confined in a nar- 

 row drain ; befides, fuch drains cannot with propriety 

 be finiflied off the firll feafon. Fdling in ftones, in 

 drains of all defcriptions,-is always done by day-work, 

 a work which fliould never be trufted to talkers on 

 any account, as one (lone, aukwardly placed, might 

 deflroy the whole drain. This kind of work, too, is 

 always performed by fready labourers. Bog-drains are 

 generally at half the price of thofe made on firm land. 

 Trenching. Double trenching, generally pracYifed 

 for nurfery, at from 8J. to it. a fquare perch.* This 

 kind of trenching, when performed in lea-land, is 

 d6ne by paring the fqrface about two or three inches 

 deep, and turning the fward downwards, over which 

 the remainder of the good foil is turned. Tne whole 

 depth Is generally from eight inches to one foot for fe- 

 minary, but, when intended for nurfery, the depth is 

 generally more, and, in fhallow foils, a few inches of 

 the fubftratum are turned up. The ufnal mode, how- 

 ever, of prepar'mg the foil for nurfery is, by fowing 

 potatoes twice, which is found by far the beft eco- 

 nomy. 



* Though the Cunningham or Scotch mcafurc is adopted 

 in many parts of the county, and even in the neighbourhood 

 of Rafh, yet, when I fpeak of a fquare perch, I always mean 

 the plantation one, or forty-nine fijuare yards. 



