66 Fertility ofWt&t Mains. 



struck with it, as I conceive that his adoption of 

 it would be highly beneficial. 



titel'&f^dfb -i<i asoirKi 

 The Baldown lands in the course of the last 



two years have been greatly improved. The 

 crops of grain were excellent ; the wheat harvest 

 had commenced : the price paid for cutting the 

 Cunningham or Scotch acre (five roods) was ten 

 shillings and sixpence, which was certainly very 

 reasonable. 



We breakfasted at West Mains with Mr. Ar- 

 buckle, than whom a more spirited and judi- 

 cious farmer is seldom to be met with; and 

 such he is allowed to be by those who might be 

 suspected (if good farming produced such bad 

 effects) of being a little jealous of his merit. 

 His farm consists of upwards of eight hundred 

 statute acres, of which about three hundred are 

 meadow and pasture. The rotation he adopts 

 on his arable lands is wheat beans wheat- 

 fallow wheat, and clover. To obtain three 

 crops of wheat in five years, bespeaks the ex- 

 cellence of the soil, which is a rich loam ; but 

 no natural fertility could sustain such cropping 

 unassisted by good management; which, in 

 some cases, induces a crop of potatoes, instead 

 of a naked fallow. Thirteen thousand rods of 

 under drains have been made in a short space 



