IRRlGATIONv ogr 



7868 rods - - .- 420 16 II 



" Stubbing, clearing, levelling by the piece - 178 8 8 

 Mould filled on three- wheel tumbrels by"\ 



the dav, on a valuation ot id. per load, f r 



^ ^ y 202 10 o 



36,000 tunibrel loads : two tumbrel loads I 

 make one cart-load J 



New barn, stables, bullock-houses, bcc. - 500 O O 

 Twenty extra horses, keeping; 1200 loads -j 



town muck ; rape take; labour for extra > 1200 o O 

 jobs, (Scc. J 



£■^9^^ IS 7 



Mr. Priest, of Besthorpe, digs his drains 30 inches 

 deep and seven yards asunder, price 6s. a score. 



SECT. II. IRRIGATION. 



This improvement is of very late standing in Norfolk: 

 the experiments made are few, but they are interesting 

 enough to promise a speedy extension. 



In 1792 I found Mr. Bevan had made some progiess 

 in watering his meadows. In 1794 he had completed 

 some. He purchased them at the rent of 4s. an acre 

 only, and his tenant had now offered him 4QS. an acre 

 rent, for all done That year he fed them with ewes and 

 lambs till the 15th of May ; the rushes were then swept 

 over, and tlie produce of hay two tons per acre, though 

 watered only for 48 hours the middle of June, and cut the 

 15th of July. The expen e of making iheni was 5I. los. 

 per acre ; the produce leaving 36s. per annum interest for 

 that sum, or about 26 per cent, profir. 



1802. 



