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The method he purfued has been firft to en- 

 clofe with double ditches, four feet deep and 

 five broad, and the earth out of both thrown 

 on to a parapet, ten feet broad, and fome more, 

 planted with rows of trees, and of ofiers, the 

 expence in labour, 2s. a perch. While this 

 work is doing, he ploughs nine or ten inches 

 deep, and as foon as the weather will admit, 

 burns ; then he tills it again once or twice, 

 and burns again ; and before the laft plough- 

 ing, limes 100 barrels an acre, which coils 

 him (burning it himfelf) fixpence a barrel, 

 including carriage and fpreading : upon this he 

 fows corn, has tried wheat, rye, and oats, but 

 oats anfwer the beft ; has tried potatoes, and 

 they did pretty well, followed them with corn, 

 and then laying it out, that is, leaving it to 

 grafs itfelf. The other is to fow corn as long 

 as it will yield any, when it is exhaufted, to lay 

 it out two or three years, and then plough and 

 lime : take two crops of corn, and lay it out 

 again ; and this way he thinks is the beft, from 

 the experience of forty years, for fo long the 

 improvement has been making. Trees of all 

 forts have grown perfectly well, but the afh 

 has done beft. A ploughing cofts 6s. an acre. 

 Graffaning and burning, al. an acre. Mr. 

 Haflet's ftock at prefent on this farm, 30 

 horfes, mares and foals, joocows, ico fheep, 

 j oo young cattle, 8 plough bullocks: this is 

 a moft noble ftock of cattle for a fpot which 

 was all heath. 



Mr. BlennerhafTet has alfo tried lime-ftone 

 fand, over one part of a field, and lime upon 



the 



