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Supposing them to bring each a ton weight, ac- 

 cording to the various authorities in Scotland, QOO 

 tons cost this sum, or about 5s. per ton. 



This might probably answer ; but suppose four 

 horses in a waggon, and to bring the common load 

 of a waggon (not nearly that of carts, proportionally 

 to the team), the expence would be so increased, 

 that I do not conceive it could answer. 



However, in all these cases, where carriage runs 

 dear, the more valuable manures should be brought, 

 such as soot, ashes, malt dust, night soil, bones, 

 rape cake, rabbit dung, &c. &c. in which the 

 carriage bears but a small proportion to the total 

 expence. It must be remembered by the young 

 farmer, that all these speculations evidently demand 

 a large capital, which he should carefully calculate 

 before he enters into them. 



WATERED MEADOWS. 



Mr. Wright dire&s that the floater should take 

 care in this month to keep the land sheltered by 

 the water from the severity of frosty nights. It is 

 necessary, however, every ten days or fortnight, to 

 give the land air, and to lay it as dry as possible, 

 for the space of a few days. Whenever the frost 

 has given a complete sheet of -ice to a meadow, it 

 is advisable to discontinue floating, for the frost 

 will sometimes take such strong hold of the land, 

 as to draw it into heaps, and injure the evenness of 

 the surface. Attention is also to be paid to pre- 

 vent the equal distribution of the water being ob- 

 structed by the continual influx of weeds, leaves, 

 sticks, Sec. 



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