352 Thorough- Draining and Sub soil- Ploughing. 



The turnips were all drawn off, and there was no visible difference 

 in the crop of barley between the different manures. 



No. 7. Barley this year, and very good, estimated nearly the 

 same as the other. The clover has come well. 



No. 8. Subsoil-ploughed, worked well, and sown with swede 

 turnips. Bone-manure used at the rate of very near a ton to an 

 acre ; the crop throughout very good, sown about 27 inches apart ; 

 the swedes are very good, healthy, and look rich, but will require 

 open weather to swell more. 



No. 9. This field was subsoil-ploughed in April, worked for 

 and sown with Scotch yellow and common turnips. Three-parts 

 of the field are very good, the other part failed, owing to the grub 

 having taken them soon after they made their appearance above 

 ground. Fold-yard manure and bones applied. Great change 

 is made in this land by draining and subsoil-ploughing. 



I shall now proceed to make some remarks on the different 

 crops of this year and general state of the land. 



The wheat and barley throughout were very good and quite 

 clean, and I believe I may safely assert that the whole crop has 

 been carried into the stack-yard free from thistles, docks, or any 

 other weed. Since subsoil-ploughing the thistles and coltsfoot 

 are nearly eradicated ; and as a proof, I beg to state that the 

 weeding of the whole crop of grain (near 50 acres) did not cost 

 10s., and would not have been so much, but that the women were 

 obliged to walk over the whole of the ground, and some ketlock 

 was to be drawn from the barley. One most important thing I 

 have to observe is this, that the whole of the grain-crops were cut 

 and carried at least a week before those of the adjoining neigh- 

 bours, which formerly was not the case, and I have no doubt 

 this will be the future result. 



The turnips upon the whole may be said to be good, and par- 

 ticularly so when the quality of land is taken into consideration, 

 and I can safely say that they are perfectly clean. 



The clover-ley now ploughing for wheat is in a fine clean state ; 

 it ploughs up well, free and open, and is likely to produce a good 

 crop of wheat ; indeed the soil appears quite changed. 



The whole of the land that has been drained and subsoil- 

 ploughed is now ploughed close to the hedges, all ditches are 

 covered and filled up, and there are no furrows ; the whole is a 

 flat surface, and, notwithstanding the very wet season we have 

 experienced, not the least portion of any crop has suffered, neither 

 has any wet appeared on any part of the surface ; the appearance 

 of the whole is most satisfactory. 



There are two fields now drained, the one ready for the sub- 

 soil-plough, having produced a crop of oats, and the other now 

 fallow for a crop of wheat, and preparatory to the subsoil-plough 



