100 TiMEHRl. 



helped by others, was to turn all new fields, that is all 

 fields in grass, when these were about to be planted, into 

 Dutch fields as far as drainage went, but English in re- 

 spefl to the position of the cane rows. Now at 

 Pins. Better Hope and Montrose there is abundance of 

 splendid land, tile-drained and in grass, and it was decided 

 to make a commencement with three fields on Montrose 

 and one on Better Hope. The latter has not yet been 

 actually planted, but the three former were planted last 

 December, and have now a healthy vigorous stand of 

 canes and look very handsome. Recently four more 

 fields have been added. The method pursued in these 

 will be easily followed by reference to the plan on the 

 table. First we turned over the whole surface with the 

 balance plough, then we lined out the drains, a tracker 

 down the centre from middle-walk to side-line, and the 

 usual drains at right angles to it, and then the cane holes 

 were lined (as will be seen in the diagram) parallel with 

 the drams. Four new fields have just been laid out 

 somewhat differently. Instead of one centre 4 feet 

 tracker two 2 feet trackers have been dug, dividing each 

 field into three equal portions. Since this was originally 

 written over 100 more acres have been similarly treated. 

 The plough as you are aware is worked across a field 

 from punt-trench to punt-trench. Supposing two cuts 

 are desired the plough travels up one side of the opening 

 and then back down the other, and at each end it is 

 lifted by a crane in the punt and swung round and 

 dropped on to the next opening. Now the difficulty we 

 had to contend with was getting the plough over the 

 tracker in the middle of the field. Three methods were at 

 first suggested, as follows ; 



