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said tillage land, with an extensive slope, intervening. Again, 

 this last named swamp is at an elevation of twenty feet above 

 another tract of pasturing, and another swamp adjoining the 

 same. Now as this swamp, daring a greater part of the year, 

 discharges quantities of water, the plan which I have partially 

 carried into operation, with most encouraging success, is to dis- 

 tribute this water over the slope, thence over lands below, 

 using them repeatedly, by changing the direction. 



I will now resume the treatment of the interval. 



Some ten years since I took hold of a piece of about five 

 acres of very unproductive pasturing, being much of it covered 

 with brush, and all of it with bogs. Being previously drained, 

 as I have stated, I proceeded to cut the bogs, (which were of a 

 nature easily to be converted into manure,) which I carted away 

 into the yards and manure beds. The parts covered with brush, 

 I cut over, and put in the plough, manured well, and plant- 

 ed with potatoes, two years, and seeded down, and have ever 

 since had great grass on the same. On another portion, (about 

 half of the lot being meadow land,) I carted wash and compost, 

 twenty loads to the acre, and as the ground was much broken 

 by bogging, I sowed grass seed, and did no more than harrow 

 it in, with a heavy harrow, and have had undiminished, and on 

 some parts, increased heavy burdens on the same. But here I 

 will remark, that on this latter there is some mixture of the 

 original coarse grass, whereas, on the part ploughed it is pure 

 English, and also that the increase of burden on the meadow 

 part is to be accounted for by irrigation. 



After finishing this job, I continued to bog from year to year, 

 sometimes burning the bogs, as before stated, and sometimes 

 using the bogs for manure, and sowing herds grass and foul 

 meadow, sometimes mixing clover, and harrowing, and though 

 the result was very successful in both cases, it was the most so 

 in the case of burning. 



In 1842, I bogged, and carted off for manure, ploughed four 

 and a half acres of meadow pasturing, in the interval, using 

 for the first time, one of Ruggles, Nourse &> Mason's Sward 

 ploughs, with a meadow point, and a drawing knife, and such 

 was the facility and dispatch with which I accomplished the 

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