AGRICULTURE. l^if 



£. 88 Ids. \d. The wheat was worth last month £. 130. Improvement 

 The balance in my favour is £. 40 0*. \\d. (£.b Is. 7d. an of waste lands " 

 acre). This land in its natural state was not worth five 

 shillings an acre. When it is laid down in grass it will be 

 Worth 40s. an acre. 



In the beginning of October 1805, the stubble was har- 

 rowed off, and conveyed to the farm-yard. The land was 

 then ploughed, sowed with twenty-four bushels of wheat, 

 and harrowed as the year before. This is not my usual 

 course of crops ; but it was thought that old common land 

 could not very easily be exhausted, and I was tempted to 

 take another crop of wheat by the high price of corn, and 

 by the circumstance of the land being for four years tithe 

 free. The corn now, the 12th of January, is coming up 

 in abundance. 



It is .my intention to lay down this lot with grass seeds, to 

 be sown with oats in the spring of 1807. Oats I conceive 

 to be the best grain for the next crop, because the land is 

 not dry enough for turnips and barley. 



The second, and much larger, division of lands lying 

 waste extended along the side, and reaches the summit of 

 a hiU, which is equal in height to any in this county. The 

 aspect is, for the most part, north and north-east. A 

 mountain torrent runs through the midst of this tract : some 

 of the lands on one side of this torrent are more sheltered, 

 and have a southern aspect. 



Lime-stone is found on the lowest part of this waste, not 

 far from the bed of a river: but the steepness of the ground 

 above would have been too formidable an obstacle to the' 

 cultivation of the higher lands, had not lime-stone been dis- 

 covered upon a spot so elevated, as to enable the improver 

 to convey his manure, at a comparatively light expence, to 

 the lands below. 



The coals indeed, for burning the lime, are brought up 

 a steep hill, a distance of four miles. The ascent up which 

 they are conveyed, enhances considerably the expence of 

 the manure. 



Upon this waste the lime-stone is at the bottom of the 

 hill, and fortunately upon the top also. The substratum, 

 at no great distance from the surface, is sandstone, in some 



places 



