304 Scotch Plough, Cart, and English Spade, 



entitled ; a loss to which probably it would 

 not be subjected, were it not, as I before 

 stated, an object of secondary importance. 

 Ashes, however, might be resorted to, and I 

 should suppose successfully, in which case 

 they would afford great relief to the dung 

 heap. 



A considerable head of stock appeared on 

 the farm ; the long-horned cattle had been well 

 selected : a cross from an Indian breed had 

 produced most gigantic animals, which seemed 

 to be particularly well adapted to the plough or 

 cart. 



The price of labor I understood to be some- 

 thing less on an average than a shilling a day. 

 I was glad to find in Mr. Foster a decided 

 enemy to the trusty: he has completely 

 banished this incumbrance from among his 

 working laborers. The Scotch plough, cart, 

 and English spade, are in constant use on the 

 farm j the rent of its arable land is forty shillings 

 an acre, and that of the meadow still higher. 

 The usual term of leases, under similar rents, is 

 twenty-one years, which are renewed two years 

 before the expiration of the term. These 

 contain several judicious clauses. The tenants 

 are bound to keep the buildings, fences, &c. in 



