•of waste land 



AGRICULTURE. 



Improvement bushels of lime, the same quantity as in the last mentioned 

 lot; ploWhed a third time, and sown in the end of October, 

 and harrowed. The quantity of wheat sown, as in the 

 last lot,' was 40 bushels. The soil is here partly sand upon 

 the sand rock, and partly a liqht soil upon rammel. Hand 

 labour was employed at a great expense upon a stony part of 

 this lot, In quantify about three acres. The wheat plants upon 

 this lot. are of as promising ail appearance as upon either of 

 those above described. 



5. The other lot of eight acres, obtained by the last 

 mentioned lease, is not yet enclosed. The labourers are 

 now (1: 3 tit January) employed upon the fence. It was 

 ploughed in January 1805, and harrowed in the same 

 month. It is now a fallow intended for pease. This lot 

 would have been prepared for wheat and sown ; but lime, 

 in sufficient quantifies for all my improvements, could 

 ■not this year be obtained, at the only rock from which 

 it could be conveyed at any reasonable expense to these 

 lands. 



I was induced to offer the rents above stated of 10,9. and 

 14". an acre (in the last case, the land to be for seven years 

 rent free) because I was confident, that these wastes were 

 capable of improvement. But in the natural state in which 

 I found them, they were not worth 2*. an acre. They af- 

 forded pasture to a few half-starved sheep of the worst 

 Welsh breed ; and the sheep did more damage to/ the fences 

 of the old enclosed lands in winter, and to the lands them- 

 selves, than could be compensated for by the profits which 

 their owners derived from them. 



The closes now fenced and improved, arc well worth 

 a guinea an acre. A year ago they were not worth two 

 shillings. 



The improvements upon the first four lots, above de- 

 scribed, are to a certain degree complete. They contain 

 fifty-three acres of as fine green wheat, as any which this 

 country contains. 



6. A sixth close of thirty-two acres, allotted to me as 

 proprietor, is fenced with a wall six feet high, and one 

 hundred and ten roods in length : most part of the wall is 

 pointed with mortar' on the outside; the rest is to be 



pointed 

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