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A confiderable improvement has been made by the fame 

 gentleman by forming walking paths through the wet 

 wooodlands : foot drains, or thofc one fpit wide and deep 

 are there cut parallel to each other, and at the diftance of 

 from eighteen inches to two foot apart ; between thefe drains 

 the fods that are raifed are laid ; thus raifing a path-v/ay 

 above the general level of the wood, and at the fame time 

 forming drains which cfFe6lualIy relieve the wood of its 

 fuperabundant v/ater : hence a more durable undergrowth is 

 encouraged, and as oak timber is always found to flouriih 

 better in woods moderately moid:, than thofe that are wet, 

 there is reafon to believe that a due attention to this point, 

 in the wet heavy woodland counties, would prove highly 

 beneficial, and much promote the growth and durability of 

 oak and other valuable timber. 



Potatoes are very generally. cultivated in the lighter parts 

 of this neighbourhood; their moft approved management 

 is, to winter fallow and prepare the land as for barley ; 

 ploughed into four furrow ridges, and planted with two rows 

 of fets at eight inches fquare upon each ridge. In the early 

 part of the fummer, the furrows are ploughed, and the 

 plants are moulded up as much as poflible. The crop is 

 gathered by firft fplitting down the ridges with a double 

 breafled plough; this with fubfcquent harrowing and houfing 

 will cofl about thirty (hillings; and averaging the annual pro- 

 duce at 300 bufliels per acre, may be readily fold at one 

 {hilling per bufliel in the field. This crop proves an excel- 

 lent preparation for wheat; but as early fowing is precluded, 

 it will be found neceflary to keep the land as clofe and as 

 much comprefTed as poffible during the enfuing fpring, to 

 prevent the Vv'heat from root failing. 



The preparation for carrots is very fimilar to the above 

 for potatoes, and is generally reckoned to amount to about 



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