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The first ploughing was in February 1805 : it was done Improvement 

 by mj' own teams. We used four horses in each team. was e 

 I will remark here, by the way, that my own teams 

 ploughed, the first time over, all the lands which I hare 

 improved, except the last mentioned lot of 21 acres; 

 and that the expence for oats only given to my horses the first 

 nine months of my improvements was 707. This lot was 

 harrowed the beginning of June. The second ploughing was 

 in July by hired teams ; it was harrowed the second time in 

 the beginning 1 of September ; limed with 3250 bushels of 

 lime, allowing about 270 bushels to each acre. It was 

 sown in the middle of October with 40 bushels of wheat, and 

 harrowed. The wheat plants are come up in abundance, and 

 look as healthy and promising as wheat on any lauds, in the 

 country. 



It has already been remarked, that upon these light loose 

 soils, it is neeessary to sow a larger than usual quantity of 

 seed by the acre. The soil is here aboutninc inchos deep, but 

 remarkably loose and light. The substratum above the sand 

 rock is the same rammel or cat brain, which is found under 

 most of these wastes. 



4. 1 obtained from another landlord a lease for 21 years of 

 two other allotments, amounting together to 20 acres. By 

 the terms of my lease I am to pay no rent for the first seven 

 years ; for the remaining fourteen years the rent is to be 

 14.9. an acre. The tenant is to make the fences at his own 

 expense. 



Sixty roods of the fence round the first of these two 

 lots, which consists of 12 acres, is a stone wall six feet 

 high ; 30 roods, a strong ditch and bank faced, as in the 

 last lot, with stone, and protected above with posts and a 

 single rail. On the summit of the bank hawthorn quick is 

 planted. A single rail was here thought sufficient, because 

 it is a fence between two closes, not been a close and the 

 ro;id. 



The first ploughing was in September 1804; this was 

 the first lot after the Rhos above mentioned, upon which 

 I employed my own teams. It was harrowed early 

 May 1805 ; cross ploughed in the beginning of June; har- 

 rowed immediately ; limed in the same month with 3250 

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