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thod prescribed. In a very great many portions of 

 such lands much smaller ditches will be perfectly suf- 

 ficient, but this any person the least acquainted with 

 draining, when viewing the ground, will readily dis- 

 cover. 



This brings us forward to consider the expense 

 and method of cropping, manuring, rental, or income. 



Expense, Method of Cropping, Manuring, Rental, 



or Income. 



It is impossible for any person to give a just or ac- 

 curate amount of the expense, unless he w T as upon the 

 ground, and describing each particular spot or field. 

 Where it is necessary to have a pond to contain a 

 quantity of water; — to convert five acres of every 

 hundred into a pond, will cost about L.40. The ditch- 

 ing as in the plan proposed, L.l, 15s. per acre, say 

 for 100 acres, L.215, and the planting of 33 acres 

 with larch firs, plants and all L.50 ; — see the method 

 of planting this kind of land afterwards explained in 

 Danhail Moss ; — this is in all, L.265, but in Ireland 

 it can be done for L.200 easily, for the which I will 

 quickly provide a fund ; observe this is taking the very 

 worst, most desperate, and mostexpensive case of boggy 

 land into view, but in 10 cases out of 12 we may throw 

 away the pond with its expense, of course the whole 

 may be drained and planted, for about L.2&5 

 sterling, which is a dead sum on every 100 acres. 

 In cropping the year after the draining and plant- 

 ing has been finished, the whole corn land must be 

 dug over by the spade, as it is not to be supposed that 

 horses can go on it for some years, at soonest four 



