Agriculture. §3 



pointed next summer. The lower part of this allotment Improvement 

 is bounded by the fences of my old enclosed lands. On the of waste lands,; 

 exposed side, towards the N. W. a plantation is intended, 

 fifty roods in length, and twelve yards in breadth. 



This close was almost entirely covered with gorse. There 

 Avas, as I stated above, much of this plant upon the lands 

 already described. My first operation was to stock up the 

 gorse. I gave my labourers three guineas for this work, 

 upon this lot only. They were also to have the gorse for 

 their own use, which was partly used for fuel, and partly 

 sold by them. They sold it at 5s. the cart load. I made 

 an experiment upon five acres of this close, where a plough 

 could not at first be used. After the gorse was stocked off, 

 the land was pared and burned ; and the ashes were spread. 

 The plough could, after the land had been thus treated, 

 though with some difficulty, be used. I ploughed it in June, 

 1805; harrowed it; ploughed it three times more; and 

 sowed it, about the end of the same month, with turnip 

 seed. There is now upon the land a fair average crop of 

 turnips. 



I also pared three acres more. Part of this was burned, 

 and part was manured with dung. Where the dung was 

 laid, the ground was trenched about nine inches deep; the 

 sod was placed with the surface downwards within the 

 trench. The dung was laid in moderate quantities upon 

 the sod, and covered with about six inches of soil. Pota- 

 toes were then set in the beginning of May in rows. They 

 were hoed twice. The produce was abundant. 



The remaining 24 acres of this inclosure, were~ploughed 

 in February and March, 1805. Fourteen acres were, after 

 one ploughing, sown with 71 bushels of black oats; 11 

 acres with pease; and three acres with summer vetches. 

 The ground was then well harrowed. I had little land of 

 my old enclosures this year in oats. It was my wish to try, 

 whether a crop of this grain might be obtained, upon 

 land so fresh and light as this, without manure, and with 

 one ploughing. The first promise, however, of the oats, 

 was so bad, when they began to appear above the ground, 

 that I thought it best to throw some lime upon the land; 

 which, if not so beneficial to the crop of oats, will be use- 

 ful 



