Exmoor Reclamation. 
95 
claimed tract, Titchcombe — an enclosure of 400 acres broken 
up by steam power, — there were about 50 acres which could only 
be broken up and drained by the Sutherland plough and hook. 
Six or seven acres are so deep that they will require tile or stone 
drains. About 150 acres have been cultivated and the land 
laid dry by a four-furrow plough, connected by a chain in 
hauling the last furrow with a light subsoiler, formerly worked 
by four horses. The rest of Titchcombe could have been 
broken up by horse or ox labour ; but the steam-engine being at 
work, it saved time to use it. 
The following is as nearly as possible the actual cost of 
ploughing and subsoiling 19 acres of the above-mentioned land 
" on the west side of Titchcombe ;" this being part of 400 
acres that were effectually reclaimed up to Christmas, 1876 : — 
Cost. 
£ «. d. 
2 Men, 20 days at 3s. 2d. each per day 668 
1 Youth, 20 days at Is. 8cZ. „ 1 13 4 
2 Boys, 20 davs at Is. „ 2 0 0 
85 tons of coai at 20s. 8 10 0 
4 gallons of best oil at os 10 0 
2 „ common oil at 3s. 3<Z 7 8 
Interest and depreciation on tackle, 14 days at 15s. per daj- . . 10 10 0 
„ „ „ 6 days, when worked for) 1 10 0 
a few Lours only each day at 5s J 
Total 31 17 8 
The following is Dr. Voelcker's analysis of the soils which 
are being brought into cultivation by Mr. Knight's steam 
cultivator : — 
Exmoor Soils. 
Dried at 212 degrees. 
CoHBniATIOM OF 
No. 1. 
Dry Land. 
No. 3. 
Wet Land. 
1 No. 5. 
Clay Pan. 
Organic matter and water of com-\ 
14-11 
28 
-40 
9 
90 
Oxide of iron and alumina . . 
1-43 
•97 
3 
•38 
•19 
05 
08 
•04 
03 
02 
•29 
■15 
14 
1-49 
90 
47 
InEoluble siliceous matter . . 
82-45 
69 
50 
86 
01 
100^00 
100 
00 
100 
00 
