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the crop very good : then dug it for barley, 

 the produce 14 barrels an acre, and the mea- 

 dow very good ever fince. I was over it, and 

 found it a perfect improvement ; the hay was 

 fine, the herbage good, and carried the com- 

 plete appearance of a meadow, except in the 

 drains, where the heath ftili appears. 



Number 2. 



Twenty-five acres of fpungy fungous bog, 

 from 8 to 1 6 feet deep, had been cut into very 

 great turf hoies, which holes, though they held 

 water, and had drowned many a cow, yet had 

 fo far drained the bog as to make the lefs drain- 

 ing neceiTary ; effected it, and then levelled the 

 holes ; but as they funk much, levelled them 

 a fecond time. Upon this, took the advan- 

 tage of a froft to manure it with clay and gra- 

 vel, at 2I. 10s. an acre; then dunged a part 

 with the quantity mentioned already, and the 

 reft of it manured with the afhes of moor, 

 which burnt yellow. Upon this manuring, 

 planted potatoes ; the crop 1 oh an acre, pretty 

 equal being, as good after the afhes as after the 

 dung. After the potatoes, levelled the trenches, 

 and dug it and lowed wheat ; the crop 6 bar- 

 rels an acre; barley 10 barrels, oats 9 bar- 

 rels : then left it for meadow, the value 2I. 

 an acre. 



Number 3 . 



Another piece of bog the fame fort, light 

 and fpungy ; drained,, and then manured with 



clayey 



