JtJNE.] WARPING. 395 



Warp is cold, and if deep takes time : a dry year 

 best : great seeds. Crops ought to be, beans 'JO 

 loads ; oats K) quarters ; wheat 10 or 12 loads ; ne- 

 ver barley. After six years potatoes, and good 

 flax: he makes it \vorlh 'l()l. to 50l. an acre. 



Mr. Wilson's idea of warping is very just : to 

 exhaust the low lands in favour of the hills ; then 

 to warp six inches dee]), to exhaust that to make 

 the hills; then to warp again; and by loing 



to keep the warp land in the h' J.est order, and at 

 the same time work a great improvement to all the 

 higher grounds. 



Note, by a Commissioner employed in JFarping. 

 " Warp leaves one eighth of an inch every tide, 

 on an average ; and these layers do not mix in an 

 uniform mass, but remain in leaves distinct. 



" If only one sluice, then only every other tide 

 can be used, as the water must run perfectly off, 

 that the surface may incrust, and if the canal be 

 not empty the tide has not the effect. At Althorpe 

 Mr. Bower has warped to the depth of 18 inches 

 in a summer. 



" Ten quarters an acre of oats, on raking in the 

 seed on warp, the more salt in it the better ; but 

 one fallow in that case necessary, to lessen the ef- 

 fect, or it hurts vegetation." 



A very great object in this husbandry of warping^ 

 is the application of it in other districts. They 

 have much warp on all the coast from Wisbeach to 

 Boston, &c. and though a long succession of ages 

 has formed a large tract of warp country, called 



there 



