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Farming of Lancashire. 



feet is contracted to 3 feet by a square ledge of 18 inches on each 



y side, so that a section of the 



\is.in drain is of this form. This ad- 



\ & ditional cutting may increase 



the cost 2d. per rood ; but 

 it has been found that the 

 ditches so cut stand better than the old drains 3 feet wide, inas- 

 much as the superincumbent weight being removed, the drain is 

 not so likely to spew up at the bottom, for it is not so much the 

 sides falling in from the top as the pressure from the bottom that 

 injures a ditch of this kind. The stuff taken out of the drain is 

 thrown into the centre of the road, and when tolerably dry and 

 ready for sanding, the road is formed, and sand or gravel laid on 

 1*2 feet wide, 4 inches thick in the centre, and 7 inches on each 

 side, the object of this additional weight at the sides being to 

 keep them down. 



The moss should be laid out in fields of 300 yards long, and 

 66 broad. This form contains 19,800 square yards, or 440 

 square yards more than 4 statute acres : a little more than 2\ 

 acres customary, of 7g yards to the perch. Each field takes 2 end 

 drains and 1 side drain ; and the covered drains in the field should 

 be 10 yards apart, so that one field of about 4 acres has 1 side 

 drain, 2 end drains, and 28 covered drains. The expenses of 

 draining are calculated after the rate of 8 yards to the rood, as 

 follows : — 



2 end drains . . . 16^ roods of 8 yards 

 1 side do. . . 37i do. do. 



54 roods. 



These end and side drains to be — 



3 feet wide at the top, 



1 foot do. bottom, 



4 feet deep, 



being the size of the open drains at the sides of the roads, &c, 

 for the first year, and the mode of work and price as follows : — 



Inches. £. S. d. * 



2nVdo! d do P lo} P er rood ' for 54 roods ' 14 9 

 24 



4th do. do. 12} 3s ' 6d ' per 100 y ards ' for 54 roods 0 15 2 



48 £1 19 11 



The 5£d. per rood includes the throwing the stuff 

 from the sides of the drains on to the road, or into 

 the field, and chopping it. 



Cutting the ledges, 2d. per rood, for 54 roods .0 9 0 secondyear 



£2 8 ]] 



