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six feet Viigli, and 1 10 roods in length : most part of the wall is pointed with mortar 

 on the outside; the rest is to be pointed next summer. The lower part of this 

 allotment is bounded by the fences of my old inclosed lands : on the exposed side, 

 towards the NW, a plantation is intended, fifty roods in length, and twelve yards 

 deep. 



This close was almost entirely covered with gorse. There was, as I stated 

 above, much of this plant upon the lands already described. My first operation 

 was to stock up the gorse; I gave my labourers three guineas for this work, upon 

 this lot only ; they were also to have the gorse for their own use, which was partly 

 used for fuel and partly sold by them. They sold it at five shillings the cart 

 load, 



I made an experiment upon five acres of this close, where a plough could not 

 at first be used. After the gorse was stocked off, it was pared and burned, and 

 the ashes were spread. 



The plough could, after the land had been thus treated, though with some dif- 

 ficulty, be used. I ploughed it in June, 1805; harrowed it; ploughed it three 

 times more ; and sowed it, about the end of the same month, with turnip seed. 

 There is now (Jan. 13), ,upon the land a fair average crop of turnips. 



I also pared three acres more ; part of this was burned, and part was manured 

 with dung. Where the dung was laid, the ground was trenched about nine inches 

 deep; the sod was placed with the surface downwards, within the trench; the 

 dung was laid in moderate quandties upon the sod, and covered with about six 

 inches of soil. Potatoes were then set, in the beginning of May, in rows; they 

 were hoed twice : the produce was abundant. 



The remaining twenty-four acres of this inclosure were ploughed in February 

 and March, 1805. Fourteen acres were, after one ploughing, sowed with 71 

 bushels of black oats, eight acres with pease, and two acres with summer vetches. 

 The ground was then well harrowed. 



I had little land, of my own inclosures, this year, in oats. It was my wish to 

 try whether a crop of this grain might be obtained upon land so fresh and light as 

 this, without manure, and with one ploughing. The first promise, however, of the 

 oats was so bad, when they began to appear through the ground, that I thought it 

 best to throw some lime upon the land, which, if not so beneficial to the crop of 

 oats, would be useful to any succeeding crop. I therefore manured 18 acres, viz. 



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