071 cOnveiting a Moory Hill side into Catch Meadoto. 521 
Brought forward . . . £2 6 6 
Second Year. 
Cultivating after turnips . . . . 0 10 0 
1 bushel of rye-grass seed . . . .050 
12 lbs. red aiid white cluver, \0d. . . 0 10 0 
6 lbs. rib-grass seed, 4d 0 2 0 
Sowing and liarrowing in grass seeds .026 
Making water gutters 0 10 0 
2 years' rent of land 0 15 0 
£5 1 0 
To keep of 1 sheep from 1st July to the 
1st November, 16 weeks, at 8*. each 2 16 0 
£2 5 0 
After-grass 0 5 0 
Total expense of converting a waste 
mountain-side into water-meadow ,200 
The reason I did not plough the land after the ashes were 
spread, was that I wished to keep the vegetable matter that was 
on or near the surface from getting down to mix with the subsoil. 
John Koai.s. 
Brendon Farm, Wiveliscombe, Somerset, 1845. 
Notes. 
I have known Mr. Roals's farm for many years. It stands 
alone on the summit of the wild Exmoor range of mountain land. 
If any one asserted that, for a trifling outlay, he could enable 
heath-covered steeps to rival in produce and value the old grazing 
grounds of Northamptonshire, he would be regarded as a dreamer. 
But if any owner of moors will visit West Somerset or North 
Devon, he will ascertain the literal truth of the statement, as T 
did five years ago. All that is rec^uired is a streamlet trickling 
down the mountain side, or a torrent descending rapidly along the 
bottom of the glen. The profit of underdraining old arable land 
appears trifling, when compared with the profit of thus forming 
catch-meadows, which, according to Mr. Roals, is more than one 
pound interest for two pounds invested. The two pages of this 
Prize Report, which state no more than Mr. Roals has him- 
self done, contain a talisman, by which a mantle of luxuriant 
verdure might be spread over the mountain moors of Wales and 
Scotland, of Kerry and Connemara. If the plain means of im- 
provement and employment are still neglected, it will be impos- 
sible not to tax the owners of those needless deserts with supine- 
ness ; and difficult to deny that they hold in their hands more of 
this country's surface than they are able to manage for their own 
good or for the good of the community. Pii. Pusey. 
