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a person to walk without sinking up to the knees; which made the whole 

 crop on eighty acres only 1 150 stone. 



" Forty acres were formed into an irrigated meadow late in the spring of 

 1809, which injured the surfiice so much that the crop was the same as it 

 had been previously to the formation. 



" In 1810, the hay crop on forty acres was 4000 stone; within that year 

 the other forty acres were formed into shape for water meadow, and in 

 1811, the hay crop on the whole was 11,250 stone; in 1812, the frost da- 

 maged the crop so much that the whole was only 4550; and in 1813, the 

 crop was 11,250 stone; but had not the frost, on the 21st, 22d, and 2,3d of 

 June, very much damaged the grass, the crop would have been one third 

 more. The hay, since the commencement of the irrigation, is twice as 

 good in quality, and I have not the least doubt, if the works are kept in 

 proper repair, that the crops of hay and aftermath are double what they 

 were at the time of the original publication of this account, in 1814, at 

 Stockholm, in the Annals of the Swedish Royal Academy of Agriculture. 

 The expense of forming this meadow, according to the value of our money, 

 was 500^., or nearly 4l. per acre." 



" About forty acres of the Craigintinny lands, near Edinburgh, were 

 formed into catch-work water meadow before the year 1800 ; at which time 

 they were let at from 20l. to 30/. per acre, per annum. In the spring of 

 1821, thirty acres of waste land, called the Frigate Whins, and ten acres 

 of poor sandy soil were levelled and formed into irrigated meadow, at an 

 expense of lOOO/. The pasture of the Frigate Whins was let previously 

 to this improvement for 40/. per annum, and the ten acres for 60l. They 

 now bring from 15/. to 20/. per acre, per annum, but may be much improved 

 by judiciously laying out 200/. more in better levelling that part next the 

 sea, and carrying a larger supply of water to it, which might be easily done 

 without prejudice to the other meadows. This, perhaps, is one of the most 

 beneficial agricultural improvements ever undertaken ; for the whole of the 

 Frugate Whins is composed of nothing but sand, deposited from time to 

 time by the action of the waves of the sea." 



Hogg, James, Author of the Queen^s Wake, &c. : The Shepherd's Ca- 

 lendar. London, 2 vols. 12mo. Price 14s. 



Martin Doyle, M. : Hints originally intended for the Small Farmers of the 

 County of Wexford, but suited to the Circumstances of many Parts of 

 Ireland. London. Pamphlet. l5. 



Robinson, P. F., Architect, F. S. A. : 



1. Designs for Ornamental Villas. London. 4to. 4/. 4s. 



2. Rural Architecture, consisting of Designs for Ornamental Cottages, 

 Lodges, Dairies, &c. Sl. 5s, 



5. Designs for Ornamental Farm-Buildings. Parts I. to VI. 6s. each. 

 To be completed in Twelve Parts. 



The first two of these works have procured a very high reputation for 

 the author as a picturesque designer. The object of the last is to improve 

 the form of agricultural buildings, without affecting the convenience of the 

 plan. " The designs already published [by others] enable the bailiff to erect 

 the buildings in the most convenient form, and to place them exactly where 

 they should be. Admitting this, it may seem strange that any thing more 

 should be considered wanting ; but it is the external form which I conceive 

 may be improved upon, without affecting the plan ; and it is the success 

 which has attended my hints upon cottage architecture, which has induced 

 me to turn my attention to this subject. With a strict regard to economy, 

 therefore, and with a view simply to imagine forms which may be agreeable 



