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dried as to admit of horses on it, both to plough and 

 dung it, when it may be done to pleasure. 



Third, To shelter and warm the cropping lands, 

 it is well known to all, that wherever there are plan- 

 tations of any kind, they wonderfully shelter and 

 warm the fields, so much so, that when in pasture, 

 the cattle thrives much better, the grass or pasture 

 is more abundant and nourishing, and the crop more 

 luxuriant. The beneficial effects of this will be most 

 wonderfully and advantageously felt where the stripes 

 of planting are so close to each other, as will be the 

 case in the draining system, and where the ground 

 is so cold by being wet in the bottom by the warm- 

 ing influences of the planting. 



Fourth, For profit I might give hundreds of incon- 

 trovertible proofs of this, many are given in this same 

 work, but for a complete explanation of this, I need 

 only refer my readers to the subsequent No. Danhail 

 Moss, land much worse and more wet than thousands 

 of acres we are now speaking of, and that I have seen 

 in Ireland, and it will be seen there that at eight 

 years old the plantation begins to pay and will for 

 ever after pay an annual rent of at the very least 

 L.7, 10s. per acre. See the profits of planting of all 

 descriptions fully, practically and experimentally ex- 

 plained and enlarged on in my Forester's Guide and 

 Profitable Planter, as also in this volume. 



I have no doubt, after a fair trial, the possibility 

 and utihty of this system of draining will be fully 

 appreciated by the lords of the soil in Ireland and 

 elsewhere ; and I would advise, that the proprietors 

 themselves first set the example. They see plainly 

 they will have not only all their outlay realized, but 

 an immense profit in three years, after which they 



