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Expenses of Deamtonizing. 



No. of 

 Acres. 



No. of 

 Yards 

 cut. 



Desckiption, &c. 



Amount 

 of 



Expenses. 



A. R. P. 



10 1 29 



8436 



£. s. d. 



No. 1. — ^The subsoil is a stiff clay, and the drains 

 are 15 feet apart. — Cutting open, Laying the Drains, 

 Breaking the Stone, and Filling-in, at Id. per yard. 35 3 0 



Getting 422 loads of Stone at the Quarry, at 6d. 



per load 10110 



Carrying the above to Drains, f of a mile — 7 horses, 



20 days, at 2 U. per day 21 0 0 



Filling, 422 loads of Stone, at l^d. per load . . 2 12 9 



Total £ 69 6 9 



Expense per Acre . 6 18 6 

 The above field was a two-years' ley, drained in Jan. 

 1837, ploughed and sown with oats, subsoiled after 

 the oats; and turnips in 1838. 



11 2 5 



7314 



No. 2. — The subsoil varies much, part clay, loam, 

 and part rocky ; the drains are 21 feet apart. 

 Cutting open, Breaking the Stone, Laying Drains, 

 &c., at It/, per yard 30 9 6 



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Field, and wheeling to Drains, at ^6/. per yard . 15 2 0 

 Three Horses, carrying remainder of Stone to Drains, 



three days, at 10*. 6^. per day . , . . 1116 



Total £47 3 0 



Expense per Acre . 4 2 0 

 The above, a two-years' old ley, drained in June, 1837, 

 subsoiled and sown with turnips and barley, 1838. 



7 0 14 



3866 



No. 3. — Varies much in the subsoil, one part stiff 

 clay and part rocky and gravel ; the drains are 

 18 and 36 feet apart; the stone got in the field. — 

 I'or getting the Stone, Cutting and Laying the 

 Drains, Breaking the Stone, &c., Ihd. per yard . 24 5 9 



Carting 250 loads of Stone to Drains, 4 horses, 6 



days, at 12^. per day 3 12 0 



Total £ 27 17 9 



Expense per Acre , 4 0 0 

 This piece was oats, after ley, 1837; drained in 

 spring, 1838, subsoiled and turnips sown. 



14 1 30 



7133 



No. 4. — Varies much iu subsoil : the drains are 20, 

 27, and 40 feet apart. — Getting Stone, Cutting and 

 Laying Drains, Breaking and Filling-in, at \^d. 



Carting 450 loads of Stone, 5 horses, 14 days, at 15s. 



per day 10 10 0 



Total £55 1 0 



Expense per Acre . 4 0 0 

 This piece was drained in Spring, 1838, ley sown 

 with odts ; subsoiled in November, preparatory^ for 

 turnips in 1839. 



