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Number 7. 



Another bog of the fame fort was, after 

 draining, manured with lime-ftone gravel, 

 and then with the fcowering of ditches and 

 earth, to the amount of 3 {. inches deep on the 

 furface : expenfe in all 4I. an acre. Then left, 

 and nothing more done to it ; very good grafs 

 came the next feafon, worth for grazing 18s. 

 an acre. 



Number 8. 



Another fpongy bog drained, and then well 

 gravelled, at 2I. iqs. Left fo for three years j 

 icarce any grafs came, the heath flill remain- 

 ing : planted potatoes on it without any dung 

 or other additional manure; the crop 4I. an 

 acre; then dug it fmooth, and nothing fown 

 in it, but came immediately to very good paf- 

 ture, worth 15s. an acre. 



Mr. French recommends, from his experi- 

 ence, the following mode of improving bogs : 

 firft, the great object is draining ; main drains 

 mould be made on each fide the bog, near the 

 firm land; thefe cuts fhould be fix feet deep 

 and eight wide, and will coll: is. a perch. 

 Then crofs drains from main drain to main 

 drain, at from 5 to 10 perch from one to the 

 other, at three feet deep and four wide, at the 

 expenfe of three pence a perch. Here is the 

 firft year's work. The next year go into all 

 the drains and fink them, which will coft id. a 

 3 perch: 



