348 



Thorough- Draining and Subsoil- Ploughing. 



£. s. d. 



About two-thirds of it (8 a. 2 r. 0 p.) are drained at 

 18 feet apart. The crop of wheat upon the part 

 now drained was very bad : there was little upon it, 

 owing to the wet season, and the seed perished. 

 For 1976 yards the stone was got in the ground, and 

 wheeled to the drains at \^d. per yard ; but for 4088 

 yards was carted : the total expense for the whole, 

 cutting open, laying drains, breaking stones, and 

 mUngin . . . . 29 7 8 



Carting 205 loads of stone to drains, 4088 yards, in 



the same field, five horses six days, at 15^. . 4 10 0 



Filling stones into cart, 205 loads, as above, Ijc?, per load 15 7 

 Raising 205 loads of stone in the quarry, 6c/. per load 5 2 6 

 Subsoil-ploughing the above 8^ acres, at 21^. . 8 18 6 



Total . £49 4 3 



Per acre £5 15 9 



The Abstract. 





A. 



R. 



p. 



Yards. 



£. 



s. 



d. 



No. 1 



. 10 



1 



29 



. 8436 



. 69 



6 



9 



2 



. 11 



2 



5 



. 7314 



, 47 



3 



0 



3 



. 7 



0 



14 



. 3866 



. 27 



17 



9 



4 



. 14 



1 



30 



. 7133 



. 55 



1 



0 



Pt. 5 



5 



0 



0 



. 3166 



. 22 



14 



11 



6 



. 10 



3 



37 



. 7459 



. 66 



11 



4 



7 



. 7 



1 



0 



. 6376 



. 45 



9 



8 











Subsoil-plough- 









66 



2 



35 



ing at 21 5. 



. 70 



1 



1 













^404 



5 



6 



Pt. 5 



4 



0 



0 



. 3004 



. 24 



9 



6 



8 



. 9 



1 



4 



. 7214 



. 66 



18 



0 



9 



8 



2 



0 



. 6064 



. 49 



4 



3 





Ac. 89 



2 



9 



60032 



544 



17 



3 



Average per acre . £6 1 9 



In commencing my report, I will state the facts which have 

 transpired in the cropping and cultivation of each field, as they 

 stand numbered in the foregoing abstract, and will be as little 

 tedious as I can avoid in giving a detail of the result. 



No. 1. — Barley 1839^ of which in my last report I was at 

 a loss to estimate the number of bushels per acre, owing to 

 the wet season, and the broken-down, lodged state of the crop. I 

 then supposed it to be about 26 bushels per acre, but it only 



