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Should the subsequent summer be moist, it is probable that the 

 produce of buck wheat might be equal in value to the expenditure ; 

 but should it even entirely fail, the artificial grass will amply re- 

 pay the expence and exertion of the husbandman. 



After the buck wheat is harvested, let lateral trenches be cut at 

 the distance of thirty-five feet, emptying themselves into the 

 great drains ; these trenches should be twelve inches wide, and six- 

 teen inches deep, and will cost about one penny per rope (twenty 

 feet) or about five shillings per acre. The contents of these 

 trenches being for the most part black mould, will be excellent ma- 

 nure for the artificial grass, and should be spread thereon without 

 delay. It might be adviseable for the first year or two, either to 

 mow or feed with sheep, avoiding the tread of heavy cattle till the 

 land has fully subsided, and if clay or red earth could be procured 

 within a moderate distance, give it an occasional sprinkling there- 

 with, after the rate of thirty or forty cart load per acre. 



I have not the least doubt but with this management, or with 

 something similar thereunto, the turf bogs might be all reclaimed, 

 and made worth twenty-five or thirty shillings- per acre. And as a 

 proof thereof, I need only instance the vast improvements already 

 made, and still carrying on wish unremitting assiduity by Mr, 

 Moxham of Glastonbury, whose exertions in this way highly merit 

 the warmest encomiums. 



Without the assistance of the plough he has by draining and 

 earthing, advanced land of the foregoing description from one 

 shilling per acre to thirty shillings. His expences it must be al- 

 lowed are great, for he puts one hundred cart load, nay, in some 

 instances, one hundred and fifty cart load of red earth per acre, 

 which being hailed one and a half or two miles, the cost must be 

 more than ten pounds per acre ; yet notwithstanding this bountiful 

 and expensive manuring, the advance in the value of the land am- 

 ply compensates ; for the present price of these bogs is two pounds 

 per acre in fee, and many hundred acres may now be bought at that 

 late. 



Mr. Moxham contends, that a covering of red earth, such as he 

 bestows, is absolutely necessary to kill the old sward ; and it must 

 be admitted, that the end proposed is effectually obtained, but then 



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