170 Mr. Philipp's Accoimt of Improvements of 



all the land where the oats were sown, and part of thai sown with pease, with 

 4550 bushels of lime. 



I obtained from the 71 bushels of oats a return of 360 bushels; a dean thin 

 crop, intermixed, indeed, with a little fern. The pease and vetches produced but 

 a poor return. 



In the beginning of November my teams were not much employed ; I sent 

 them to try how this land would appear when ploughed up. I found the part 

 that had been limed remarkably mellow. I conceive this favourable appearance 

 arose from the long time that the lime had been upon the ground. I then pro- 

 cured several .hired teams, in addition to my own. It was all ploughed by the 

 20th of the same month, sowed with 95 bushels of wheat, and harrowed. 



The potatoe land was sowed with wheat at the same time. The six acres that 

 had not been limed are to be manured with 190 bushels of soot. The soot is 

 now in waggons upon the ground ; and the first favourable day it will be thrown 

 upon the land as a top dressing. 



This is the last field sowed by me. The wheat plants are now, the 13th of 

 January, making their appearance through the ground, and look well. 



I intend to proceed with activity in the improvement of the following allot- 

 ments, which still lie waste: 



7 and 8. One of these lots, of 25 acres, I obtained in exchange for four acres 

 and a half of old enclosed arable land, detached from my farm, of much the same 

 quality with the other arable lands in this neighbourhood. This circumstance 

 alone proves of how little value these waste lands are ; for these twenty-five acres 

 were an object to me, as they lay contiguous to another of my allotments j and 

 ihey are equal, in goodness of soil, to any upon this hill. After this land has un- 

 dergone the process described in lots 2 and 3, I hope to see these twenty-five 

 acres of equal value, acre by acre, to the 4-5- which I gave for them. 



These 25 acres, as well as lot 8, 27 acres, allotted to me, as proprietor, will be 

 improved next summer. 



9. Three acres of steep ground, that can never be cultivated, will be planted, 

 this spring, with different kind of forest trees. 



The tables of expenditure are below. The return in the first lot has more than 

 repaid all my expences the first year; and the return promised by the three suc- 

 ceeding lots is little less abundant. 



