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of Drapers, I tell every landlord in the empire possessing 

 peat hog, 



Mutato iioinine, de te 



Fabula narratur 



I now proceed to measures of practice applicable to all 

 peat countries. 



Let the Drapers' Corporation employ five parties of 

 twelve each, composed of their industrious and unoccu- 

 pied poor tenants, with an overseer to each of them ; let 

 these five corps, under proper general directions, move 

 about their estate encountering cut-out moss ivherevei' they 

 meet it, and converting it into valuable meadows by the 

 following simple process. 



First, light a few fires to form ashes for compost ; then 

 level the surface, and make frequent drains, so as effec- 

 tually to discharge all stagnant water, and then draw a 

 strong fence round the whole area; — the great work is now 

 over, and on this occasion I shall not, as on others, wait 

 until Nature sows or plants for me. I desire the prepared 

 surface be sprinkled over with a little compost, and then 

 strings or stolones of the agrostis stolonifera (Irish 

 FiORiN) to be spread on the surface, and the remainder 

 of the compost thrown over them. 



This compost is to be formed of the peat or earth thrown 

 out from the drains, and fence ; and the ashes to be mixed 

 with it, will be ready in due time ; while the stolones with 

 which it is to be laid down, are gathered in abundance on 

 the spot, in the bog itself. 



I have now five corps prowling about the Drapers' 

 estate, seeking what morasses they shall devour ; and I 

 answer for it, the odious description vanishes in one 

 MONTH fi'om the face of their territory — let us see at what 

 expense. 



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