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On Breaking up Grass Lands. 
situated would be near plenty of manure, that might be pur- 
chased for the turnip crops, and if these were eaten off with 
sheep, and but few corn crops taken, the land would gradually 
be improved, and become in time as fruitful as the sands of 
Flanders. The following estimate will be applicable to lands of 
this description : — 
Estimate 2. 
No. 1. — Estimate of the expense of cultivating thin sandy soil, after being 
broken up, and of the profits likely to be derived from it. 
Light sandy or calcareous loam, with rubbly rock under, with a moderate 
depth of soil, worth 20s. per acre to rent. An acre of such land will grow 
15 cwt. of hay, or keep little more than two sheep per acre, winter and 
summer. 
Produce 15 cwt. of hay at 48s. ....... 
Aftermath ........ 
£. 
Deduct rent, tithe rent-charge, rates, &c. . . ,15 
Labour per acre, repairing i'ences, and for attending stock, 
and hay-making when mown . . . . .07 
Profit on capital, at 15 per cent, on 3/. 10s. . . ,0 10 
No. 2. — Similar pasture, broken up, and rent altered to 25s. per acre — 
five-field system. 
1. Expense of turnip crop ....... 
[This should not be reckoiied, merely, as the expense of breaking 
up, and sowing the first crop. It would not be sufficient 
for a turnip crop taken afterwards, which would require 
manure.] 
2. Expenses of the barley crop ....... 
3. „ „ seed crop, mown ...... 
4. „ „ • ,, fed 
6. „ „ wheat crop ....... 
Rent, tithe rent-cliarge, rates, &c., after being broken up . 
No draining required. 
No deduction for capital expended in paring and burn- 
ing, as such land as this will require the same operation, 
at little less expense, at the end of every course, to 
obtain ashes for turnips. 
Profit on capital, wear and tear, &c., 15 per cent, on b(. 
Average expenditure on an acre 
Produce of turnip crop, 15 tons, at 3s. 6rf. per ton 
„ barley crop, 40 bushels, ut 3*. 9</. 
1 
5) 
s. d. 
11 6 
0 15 0 
2 3 6 
2 3 6 
0 0 0 
£. s. d. 
4 0 0 
2 10 
0 18 
0 4 
2 15 0 
10 7 0 
2 1 4 
2 6 6 
4 7 10 
£. *. d. 
2 12 6 
7 10 0 
Carried forward 
10 2 6 
