42 JANUARY. 



heath ; a circumstance that deserves the attention 

 of improvers. 



" In the eleventh year of my lease I applied to 

 my landlord for a renewal ; on which the farm was 

 valued again by Mr. Hare, the surveyor at Peter- 

 borough, and I took a fresh lease of 15 years, to 

 commence at the termination of my old one, at the 

 rent of 4001. 



" I immediately clayed and broke up 200 acres 

 more, at JOO loads an acre, 4O bushels per load, 

 inclosing all with quick hedges, and ditches five 

 feet wide and four feet deep : after this I improved 

 10O acres more in the same manner. 



"In the two leases of 'IS years I clayed or marled 

 82O acres ; and I have clayed or marled so much 

 over the second time, at /O loads an acre, that the 

 quantity I have carried in all, is very little short of 

 140,000 loads. 



" Upon taking a third lease, I was, in 1798-9, 

 particularly steady to this work, and in 49 weeks 

 and three days carried 1 1,275 cubical yards, pay- 

 ing by measure of pits, and not by loads, which 

 were filled and spread by four men and a boy, "and 

 carted by six horses and two tumbrils. 



" In this business of carrying clay or marl I 

 have practised hand-harrowing. The men can 

 make good earnings at JOd. per yard, wheeling 

 it 30 rod ; and down to 7d. a yard at shorter dis- 

 tances ; and I am much inclined to think, that if 

 we had workmen used to the operation, -and 



handy 



