288 On the Maintenance of Fertility in neiv Arable Land. 
Number of Field 
Gross 
No . of Field 
Gross 
DiflftTCncc. 
ou Old Plan. 
Acreable Value, 
on 
Acreable Value, 
1836. 
New Plan. 
ISifi. 
(1. 
(/. 
J. (/. 
92 
81 
Ditto 
13 
17 
0) 
o} 
8 
50 
0 
35 0 
5!) 
Ditto 
27 
0 
2 
50 
0 
23 0 
89 
91 
Ditto 
D Itto 
11 
12 
S} 
16 
34 
0 
21 6 
67, 71, 72 
Ditto 
17 
0 
I 
52 
0 
3') 0 
75 
Ditto 
20 
0 
6 
50 
0 
30 0 
105, 106 
Ditto 
11 
0 
21 
32 
0 
21 0 
85, 86 
Ditto 
13 
0 
7 
47 
0 
34 0 
*U:i, U4, 152 
Arable . 
3ti 
0 
12 
44 
0 
8 0 
*153 
Ditto 
34 
0 
13 
44 
0 
10 0 
Jn justification of these items, I may give the histor}' of one or 
two of the fields here enumerated. No. 8 was one of the poorest 
fields on the farm : it was drained in 1840, and its surface was 
pared and burned in the autumn of the same year ; it was ploughed 
into perch-wide ridges, without reference to the position of the 
drains, and it lay so till the spring of 1841, when it was sown with 
oats, of which it yielded a large crop — upwards of 8 quarters per 
acre ; the stubble was ploughed, and in the spring of 1842 it was 
manured and grubbed, or "cultivated," and sown with mangold- 
wurzel, and it yielded an enormous produce of that root, certainly 
much above 30 tons per acre; in 1843 it was sown with wheat, 
and yielded upwards of 46 bushels per acre; in 1844 it was 
planted with potatoes, but these partly failed owing to the dry- 
rot ; in 1845 it bore wheat again, and there never was a finer pro- 
mise of a crop than was exhibited on that field in the month of 
June, but the weather of July laid it, and its produce was greatly 
injured both in quantity and quality. Clover seeds and Italian 
rye-grass were sown among the young wheat in the spring of 
1845, and several very heavy crops of rje-grass have been cut 
off the land during the past year. I do not think that the 
rental of this field is put too high at 50s. per acre. 
Now, take No. 2, a field originally of much better quality than 
No. 8. It was pared and burned in the spring of 1840 — ploughed, 
harrowed, and sown to common turnips, of which it yielded a fair 
crop ; in 1841 it bore oats — a crop of about 10 quarters per acre ; 
in 1842 it was sown with the white Belgian carrot, and it yielded 
22 tons per acre of them ; in 1843 it yielded 42 bushels of wheat ; 
in 1844 it yielded a crop of swedes — not very good, owing to the 
character of the season ; in 1845 the promising plant of wheat 
which covered it was laid and much injured by the rough weather 
* These grounds were naturally dry, and had the character of being 
*' the best potato land in the parish." 
