JANUARY. 



Good beech woods, upon this system, will pay 

 an acre, clear of expences, which is more than) 

 tmderwood would pay upon the same soil. I be- 

 lieve it will generally be found, that the older the 

 growth the greater will be the profit. At twelve 

 years' growth of ash, the land must be very good to 

 have a crop of hop-poles ; but at twenty years' 

 growth, you will have very fine ones, and pay your- 

 self much better than by the younger growth. 



Some w ; oods are so very wet,, that the ash, hazel, 

 hornbeam, and oak stubs, will not thrive ; in that 

 case, the sallow and willow should be multiplied, or 

 the wood hollow-drained ; which is a practice be- 

 ginning in some parts of Essex. There they have 

 so long seen the advantages attending drains of that 

 kind, in their corn and grass lands, that they now 

 think their wettest woods will pay as well for them 

 as an arable field. It cannot be doubted but the 

 practice must be exceedingly advantageous ; and 

 this month is a very proper time for doing it. 



THE MOLE PLOUGH. 



The accounts which have for the last two or 

 three years been received, of the effects of this im- 

 plement, are extremely contradictory. With some 

 farmers the use of it has been great, and the dura- 

 tion of the drains extremely satisfactory ; with 

 others the reverse. I have attended to these cir- 

 cumbtances in various districts, .and have employed 

 the tool en my own farm, and from all I could ob- 

 serve or hear of it, the effect seems to depend en- 

 tirely 



