408 JUNE. 



to keep the warp land in the highest order, and at 

 the same time work a great improvement to all 

 the higher grounds, 



Note, by a Commissioner employed in Warping. 

 " Warp leaves one-eighth of an inch every tide, on 

 an average ; and these layers do not mix in an uni- 

 form 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 1 8 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 

 effect, or it hurts vegetation." 



A very great object in this husbandry of warping, 

 is the application of it in other districts. They 

 hav'e 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 silt, yet no attempts that I have heard of have 

 been made to warp artificially there. 



Any proprietor into whose hands this Calendar 

 may fall, or even any farmer, living near a muddy 

 river, should consider well the position of his 

 ground, and try the amount of the subsidence of 

 the water in a cylindrical glass jar; for a treasure 

 may be near him, without his knowing any thing of 

 the matter. 



PLOUGH 



