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city ; the best means of improvement, is compleat draining, and after 

 that a liberal covering with clay or red earth ; these will freely in- 

 corporate with the soil, and make it sufficiently firm. After such 

 improvement, no kind of land is more productive, particularly in 

 a dry summer. 



I have this year seen land of this description, spring fed till the 

 12th of May, yield by the 24th of June two ton of hay per 

 acre ; and Mr. Lax, on his farm at Godney, has for two years 

 past kept twenty cows and a bull throughout the year on thirty- 

 five acres of land. His plan is to winter * hnym fifteen acres. 

 This on an average of seasons is fit to be stocked the beginning of 

 April, and is fed till the 12th of May. By this time the remain- 

 ing twenty acres are in sufficient strength to take the cows, and 

 will keep them till the after gra:s of his mown ground is ft to 

 receive them ; then the unfed grass in the summer lcaze is sk.med, 

 which yields from 5 cwt. to 10 cwt. of hay per acre ; this is p-iven 

 to the cows when they are dry, namely, in the months of Decem- 

 ber and January. After they have calved, which is from the be- 

 ginning of February to Lady Day, they are supplied with the best 

 hay ; here are more than thirty tons of hay produced, so that 

 twenty cows cannot possibly want winter provender. 



Not many years since this farm was part of an extensive moor 

 inclosed by Acl of Parliament, and was purchased by Mr. Lax of 

 the commissioners at 15I. per acre, to which add 5I. per acre 

 for draining and claying, making in the whole 20I. per acre, at 

 5 per cent, the rent will be 20s. per acre. 



* It is old English, and fjund in a!! books and laws relating to Forests. 



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