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Thnrovffh- Draining and Sitbsoil-Ploiir/hiiit/. 
The above 113 acres comprise the whole of the arable land 
which lias been under the plougli for many years. The old 
pasture-land will nearly all require to be drained, and undergo 
two or three courses of tillage, in order to improve the herbage. 
Draining is now done upon a part of the old pasture, and 
ploughed up for oats, and preparation is making for a good 
(leal more to be done this season. The whole has been laid down 
in a very bad state, with a very uneven surface, and I do not see 
how this part of the farm is to be made useful in any other way ; 
and I propose going through the whole as it comes in course, rest- 
ing the old tillage part of the farm till all is accomplished. The 
meadow-land is in a better state ; the surface is even. The part 
irrigated is much improved, and a good deal of draining with top- 
dressing has been done with great eflfect. A more detailed ac- 
count is intended to be given of the meadow and pasture part of 
the farm in a future report. 
I shall now confine myself to the crops, and effect of what has 
been done upon the arable part, the numbers in the abstract of 
10, 11, and 12 I have added to my former report, and containing 
particulars of the expense of draining and subsoil-ploughing, 
showing the average per acre upon the whole, beginning Avith 
No. 1, and so proceed with the whole in succession. I shall also 
forward you with this a particular of the result of the crop of 
Jjarley this year, after turnips, being the experiment of 1 acre each 
from four different sorts of manures (viz., Poittevin and Co.'s dis- 
infected, Ludlow street-sweepings, bones, and fold-yard manure). 
The quantity of barley from each acre will show a great increase 
of produce, and I beg to add that this experiment has been 
carried on with great exactness ; and with regard to the other 
crops I will give you estimated quantities in their course, com- 
mencing with 
No. 1. Wheat 1841, a good even crop all through; the pro- 
duce per acre 26 bushels of best and 1 bushel of tail ; after the 
wheat this field was ploughed in January, 1842, from 10 to 12 
inches deep ; in April and May it was worked with the Twins, 
with harrowing and rolling, was made perfectly clean and fine 
without further ploughing. The beginning of June, Swede tur- 
nips were sown 27 inches apart, and 8 inches in the row, with 
10 cwt. of bones and about 6 tons of fold-yard manure to an acre : 
the turnips very good ; one-half are drawn off for cattle, and the 
sheep follow by eating the other half regularly over the field, so 
that the land has an equal benefit from the sheep. 
No. 2. In this field the experiment of the different manures is 
carried on, of which I give you a detailed account in a separate 
report; therefore I shall not say more than that the l)arley was 
equally good over the field, and will, I think, turn out to be 40 
