84 AGRICULTURE. 



Improvement ful to any succeeding crop. I therefore manured 18 acres: 

 of waste lands. . ";* ', , 



viz. all the land where the oats were sown, and part of that 



sown with pease, with 4550 bushels of lime. 



I obtained from the 71 bushels of oats, a return of, 360 

 bushels; a clean, thin crop, intermixed, indeed, Avith a 

 little fern. The pease and vetches produced but a poor re- 

 turn. 



In the beginning of November my teams were not much 

 employed. I sent them to try how this land would appear 

 when ploughed up. I found the part which had been limed 

 remarkably mellow. I conceive that this favourable ap- 

 pearance, arose from the length of time that the lime had 

 been upon the ground. I then procured several hired teams 

 in addition to my own. It was all ploughed up by the 

 twentieth of the same month: sown with 95 bushels of 

 wheat, and harrowed. The potatoe land was sown with 

 wheat, at the same time. The six acres, which had not 

 been limed, are to be manured with 240 bushels of soot. 

 The soot is now in waggons upon the ground; and the 

 first favourable day, it will be thrown upon the land as a 

 top dressing. 



This is the last field sown by me. The wheat plants are 

 now (January 13) making their appearance above ground, 

 and look well. 



- I intend this year to proceed with activity in the improve, 

 ment of the following allotments, which still He waste. 



7. and 8. One of these lots of 25 acres I obtained in 

 exchange for four acres and a half of old enclosed, arable 

 land, detached from my farm, of much the same quality 

 with other arable lands in (his neighbourhood. This circum- 

 stance alone proved of how littja value these waste lands were. 

 These 25 acres were an object to me, as they lay conti- 

 guous to another of my allotments; and they are equal in 

 goodness of soil to any upon this hill. After* this land has 

 undergone the process described in lots 2d and 3d, I hope 

 to see these 25. acres of equal value, acre by acre, to the 

 four and a half which I gave for them. 



These 25 acres, as well as Jot 8, 27 acres, allotted to 

 me as proprietor, will he improved next summer. 



9, Thre V 



