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Sjmng Park Farm. 
ders were continually spreading out into the fields, and the trees 
threw an injurious shade, and besides robbing the land were 
highly mischievous, and occasioned considerable loss. To re- 
medy all this, I proceeded forthwith to fill in the ditches and 
grub the borders, taking care where necessary to first lay in the 
ditches capacious drains. In this way I must have largely 
added to the average yield of my land without bringing any 
addition to my rent or parish-rates, and with a positive reduc- 
tion in all the expenses of cultivation. I have also derived 
considerable assistance by availing myself of the improved imple- 
ments that have lately been introduced. By their assistance I 
have been enabled to do the work of the farm with consider- 
ably less labour than was necessary to my predecessors ; and by 
wide drilling and the free use of the horse-hoes and Finlayson's 
harx'ow, I am enabled to keep my land clean without having 
recourse to fallowing, and thus not only avoid the great expense 
of fallows, but have every acre of my land always under crop, 
always producing. I had, moreover, seen the loss of manure 
that bad yards occasioned, and the importance of a greater eco- 
nomy not only in the collection, but also in its preservation. My 
attention had been early called to the improper arrangement 
of farm-buildings and ill formation of yards. By sacrificing 
two or three old sheds, and the construction of a new barn, with 
lean-tos for cattle to weather under, I brought my yards into 
squares, where the stock lie sheltered in the winter by the barns, 
sheds, and stables, that surround them ; and by hollowing out the 
centres, and constantly applying material to absorb the liquid, 
the manure is collected and held with as little waste as possible. 
In this way (besides the better accommodation for the animals) 
I have more than doubled the home means for enriching the 
land. 
Having alluded to the more important means by which I have 
been enabled to increase the returns from Spring Park, and from 
farms very variously situated and of very different cliaracters, I 
must hesitate ere I further occupy space in the Journal by de- 
tails of minor importance ; and I know not how I can better 
close this sketch than by attaching the account of my farms and 
mode of culture as it appeared in the ' Maidstone Gazette' of 
the 1 llh of August last : — 
' The principles on which Mr. Davis professes to farm are to be 
found in the following address to a farmer: — 
' 1. Never to be contented until all your land has been trenched ami 
turned over by the plough a foot in depth, nor until 
' 2. The wet land be made dry by deep draining, and consider no 
land eflectually drained unless the drains be 4 feet in depth ; tiiat is 
to say, unless the water-level be so far below the sui face, that corn shall 
