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lure it to the bottom. A red bog, of a light 

 fuzzy fubftance, like a bed of tow, which 

 would not burn in turf; no other product 

 than bog berries. Part of it fo very wet, that 

 could not cut the drains at firft wider thari 

 four feet and two fpits deep ; repeated this 

 before the hard froft of 1765; had yet made 

 no progrefs, it being almoft as wet as ever : 

 but took advantage of that froft, to cover the 

 ice two inches thick with clayey gravel ; when 

 the thaw came, the gravel funk, and prefled 

 out the water. The expenfe of this manur- 

 ing was 3I. 1 os. an acre. This gravelling had 

 fuch an effect, that in the May following about 

 half of it bore horfes with bafkets, for carry- 

 ing on dung, and where it would not bear 

 them, it was carried en by men. The quan- 

 tity fix bufhels to the fquare perch, and im- 

 mediately planted with potatoes in the com- 

 mon trenching manner. The crop, per acre, 

 40 barrels each; 44 ftone, at 8s. each. Le- 

 velled the potatoe trenches in digging for bar- 

 ley, in doing which attended minutely to not 

 burying the manure ; this digging coft 30s. an 

 acre, and the barley covered with the fpade, 

 which they do very fail:, and the expenfe in- 

 cluded in the 30s. The crop of barley 10 barrels 

 an acre, at 8s. After this crop, took no 

 more trouble with it ; very rich and luxuriant 

 grafs fprang up directly, and would let readi- 

 ly in meadow, at 25s. but part of it in a few 

 years would let at 2I. Two acres of it were 

 not perfectly reclaimed; it was of the moory 

 nature ; dug and burnt it, and put in turnips, 



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