480 
Sutherland Reclamation. 
Clacffjan Farm, No. III. — This farm is well situated, very near 
the railway station, with a good southern aspect. It will be shel- 
tered from the north by a broad belt of plantation running along 
the face of the hill, and extending from this to the No. V. farm. 
The planting has been finished, but several years must elapse 
before much benefit is derived from it. The whole of the farm 
was Sutherland-ploughed in 1877 and 1878, with the small 
mould-board upon the subsoil tine. All the stones have been 
raised to the surface ready for carting away. Most of the turf 
on this farm is shallow, and it is not expected that much draining 
will be needed, except near the road where the peat is deeper. 
No work has been done on this farm since the autumn of 
1878, and none of the land has been " disced." Being left in the 
rough furrow, the frost of last winter penetrated well into the 
turf. The outlay upon this land up to the 31st of July, 1879, was 
£ s. d. 
Draining 208 4 11 
Trenching 1329 10 2 
Clearing 171 10 2 
Building 18 16 10 
Eoads 7 2 8 
Total £1735 4 9 
The only operation that is completed is the trenching of 250 
acres, at a cost of 5/. 6s. Aid. per acre. 
Kinhrace Farm, No. IV. — On this farm very little work has 
been done. One field has been drained, and four fields have 
been partially fenced. The expenditure to the 31st of July, 
1879, was 
£ s. d. 
Draining 324 14 4 
Trenching 92 7 4 
Fencing 103 4 2 
Building 37 17 10 
Total £558 3 8 
In driving along the road from the No. III. to the No'. V. 
farm, when about halfway, one passes some good grass-land on 
both sides of the road, a good example of the benefit derived 
from the cultivation of the crofters fifty years ago. This result 
is probably due to cultivation without the aid of lime, for there 
is little chance of lime having been brought into this district 
before it was opened up by the railway. A little further on 
may be found two surviving cabins of the old type described by 
Mr. Loch ; one of them is occupied by an octogenarian ex-police- 
man from Edinburgh, whose wish has been gratified that he 
might return to the home of his boyhood ; the other is tenanted 
