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Bustard, cresses, and wild celery, with plenty of 

 docks and thistles. 



Flax, 40 to 50 stone per acre. 



A sluice for warping, five feet high, and seven 

 wide, will do for 5O acres per annum ; and if the 

 land lie near the river, for 70. Costs from 4001. 

 to 5001. 



Mr. Nicolson at RawclifF, takes the levels first ; 

 builds a sluice; if a quarter of a mile or half a 

 mile, 60 acres may be done the first year; the 

 drier the season, the better. The clough, or sluice, 

 40Ol. eight feet wide, and five or six feet high: 

 a drain 14 feet at bottom, and as much more at 

 top, 30s. to 40s. an acre, of 28 yards: banks four 

 to eight feet high, and expetice 7s. to 2Os. an acre 

 of 28 yards. Begin at Lady-day, till Martinmas ; 

 but all depends on season ; the depth will depend 

 on circumstances. If a landlord warp, it should 

 be deep at once; if a tenant shallow, and repeat it ; 

 as good corn will grow at six inches as six feet; at 

 three inches great crops ; the stiflfer the warp, the 

 better. Some seasons, sow corn the year after. 

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

 best: great seeds. Crops ought to be: beans 20 

 loads; oats 10 quarters; wheat 10 or 12 loads; 

 never barley. After six years, potatoes, and goo 

 flax: he makes it worth 4Ol. to 50l. an acre. 



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

 exhaust the lowlands in favour of the hills; then 

 to warp six inches deep, to exhaust that to make 

 the hills; then to warp again; and by thus doing, 



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