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lioed, and eaten when green by flieep", and one half of the 

 improvement to be in grafs laid down with the l$.ft crop of oats. 

 Not lefs than one hundred barrels of lime per acre to have been 

 fpread on the whole. An orchard of two acres to be well 

 planted ; and a fally garden of as much. One good farm 

 houfe, with a barn, ftable, cowhoufe, &c. and four cabbins 

 to be built and inhabited, the whole of ftone or mortar, and 

 covered with flate. And the trail to be adually let on leafe to 

 one or more tenants, not occupying any other land, and refid- 

 ing on the premifes. Whoever intends to be claimants to give 

 notice to the fociety that they may appoint inspectors'. 



12. To the next greateft quantity, not lefs than fixty acres, 

 on the like conditions, the plate three hundred pounos. 



13. Boo IMPROVEMENT, 1779. To the perion who 

 fli all drain and improve into rich meadow, the greateft quan- 

 tity of bog, not lefs than 50 acres, being part of a bog not 

 lefs than 100 acres, and make a full report to the fociety of the 

 mode, expences and produce in the year 1788, a piece of plate 

 of -the value of 400!. with an honorary inscription. The foci- 

 ety leaves to the claimant to purfue whatever mode he pieafes, 

 but the land muft have a good houfe, cowhoufe and neceflary 

 offices, with two cabbins built all of ftone and flate, and the 

 improvement let to refident tenants occupying no other land. 



1 4. For the next greateft quantity, not lefs than thirty acres, 

 the plate two hundred pounds. 



15. PLANTING. To the perfon who fliall inclofe with a 

 wet wall, not lefs than fix feet high, and plant, the greateft 

 quantity of land, not lefs than fifty acres, in the year 1780, 

 a piece of plate of the value of four hundred pounds, with a 

 fuitable infcriptioji. The trees to be afh, elm, poplar, beech, 

 larch, fcotcb, fpruce or filver fir, to be not more than four 

 years old, nor more than tour feet afunder, and in the centre 

 of everv fuch fpace, acorns to be fown and covered. 



, 16. For the next greateft quantity, not lefs than thirty acres, 

 the plate two hundred pounds. 



17. To the perfon who fliall in the year 1780, plant and 

 fence fo as to be completely fecured from cattle, the greateft 

 quantity of land with the common bafcet fallow in beds fix feet 

 broad, and four rows on each bed, not lefs than thirty acres, 

 a piece of plate of the value of one hundred pounds, with a. 

 fuitable infcription. 



18." For the next greateft quantity, not lefs than fifteen acres, 

 the plate fifty pounds. All to be continued by previous notice, 

 every year when ouce they came into turn. 



I have to obferve upon them, that the courfe* of crops 

 here recommended can only have fair juftice done them in the 

 infancy of the hufbanuiy by gentlemen, or men of confiderable 

 capital ; confequently, it is the wifeft to offer a premium that 

 fhall attract their notice, and not vary it for lefler tenants, 

 who at firft would be incapable of executing the conditions. 

 The mountain and bog improvement are great objects, and 



therefore 



