JUNE.] WARPING. 



for flax or potatoes ; and the whole at 50s. He has 

 20 acres that he warped three foot deep, between 

 the beginning of June and the end of September, and 

 18 acres, part of which is three feet and a half devp. 

 He has applied it on stubbles in autumn by way of 

 manuring ; for it should be noted as a vast advantage 

 in this species of improvement, that it is renewable 

 at any time ; were it possible to wear out by crop- 

 ping or ill-management, a few tides will at any 

 time restore it. As to the crops lie has had, they 

 have been very great indeed ; of potatoes from 80 

 to 130 tubs of 36 gallons, selling the round sorts 

 at 3s. to 3s. 6d. a tub ; and kidneys at 5s. to 8s. 

 Twenty acres warped in 17Q4, could not be ploughed 

 for oats in ] 7Q5, he therefore sowed the oats on 

 the fresh warp, and scuffled in the seed by men 

 drawing a scuffler ; eight to draw, and one to hold; 

 the whole crop was very great : but on three acres 

 of it measured separately, they amounted to 14 

 quarters one sack per acre. I little thought of 

 finding exactly the husbandry of the Nile in Eng- 

 land. I had before heard of clover seed 1 

 sown in this manner on fresh warp, and succeeding 

 greatly. 



He warped 12 acres of wheat stubble, and sowed 

 oats in April, which produced 12 quarters an acre. 

 Then wheat, 36 bushels an acre. His wheat is 

 never less than 3O. 



Six acres of beans produced 30 loads per acre, 

 or QO bushels : one acre, measured to decide a 



wager, 



