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Reclaiming part of Forest of Delamere. 
of Delamere Forest will furnish some information upon a subject 
that is of growing importance ; and he ventures further to express 
his hope that Mr. Thompson will, as he promises, carry the 
matter farther, and point out to scientific men practically con- 
nected with agriculture how they may lend their aid, not only by 
effecting improvements on a large scale, but by systematically 
placing on record the results of their experience. 
Supplement to Mr. Grantham s Paper on the Reclaiming 
part of Delamere Forest. By P. H. Freue. 
The account of this important addition to our area of cultivated 
ground would be incomplete without some outline of the results 
subsequently obtained in farming this land. To supply this 
defect, Mr. Leather, the lessee under the Crown, whose acquaint- 
ance I made in my hasty visit to this spot, has obligingly 
furnished me with the following particulars. 
Of the newly marled land a large part was at once cropped 
with potatoes and with turnips, and gave very satisfactory results. 
In the year 1862, 100 acres were planted with potatoes, with a 
dressing of 4 cwts. of Peruvian guano. The crop, though 
varying from nearly 10 tons to 3 or 4 tons per acre, was good on 
the whole, and averaged 6 tons per acre, the marketable potatoes 
realised 41. per ton ; the residue furnished 30 lbs. per day to 
32 horses during 6 months. The sales realised in all 1950/. 
Sixty acres of roots were also sown, of which 6 were swede, 
the rest white turnips ; the manure supplied was, of bone dust 
5 cwts., Peruvian guano 2 cwts., salt 5 cwts. per acre. The 
crop was satisfactory ; an acre of it, on the average, carried 290 
sheep for one week. 
In the following season, 1863, the 100 acres which had already 
borne potatoes were sown with turnips, of which 70 acres were 
swede, the rest white. 
Sixty acres were manured as follows : — bone-dust 7 cwts., salt 
7 cwts., Lawson's nitrophosphate 2 cwts. The other 40 acres 
had bone-dust 5 cwts, salt 5 cwts, nitrophosphate 2 cwts. The 
crop was very heavy, and fed 1790 sheep from October till they 
were sold fat in spring (the last going out in June), besides 
keeping 6 bullocks, and supplying 28 lbs. per day to 32 horses 
for two months. Of these roots only one-third were consumed 
on the land whereon they grew, those that were drawn enabled 
Mr. Leather to fold 200 acres more of land. The sheep received 
chalf, 1 part hay to 2 of straw ; the entire cost of their artificial 
food amounted to lis. per head. 
