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" tural distress has hitherto prevailed, and where 
"draining is essential to preserve them in a state of 
" cultivation." 
I can only add, in proof of the efficacy of draining 
and deep ploughing, the success attending it upon a 
farm now occupied, and scientifically conducted, by the 
Honourable Stanhope Hawke, situated on Clay No. 1. 
This land, four years ago, even with excessive manuring, 
could not be made to produce more than five loads of 
wheat per acre ; this year it has upon it twelve loads. 
Some of it is now being subsoil ploughed by a plough 
of Mr. Gully's, who has obtained abundant crops by 
its use. 
In the next paper I purpose describing the country 
from Bawtry, by Hatfield and Thorne to Goole=^ ; to 
notice particularly the abuse of lime upon large por- 
tions of these wet soils, where it is converted into a 
hydrate before it can act on the vegetable matter as a 
solvent ; to notice the breeds of cattle, for different 
breeds are adapted to particular geological situations as 
much as the plants upon which they feed ; and if, by a 
judicious selection and crossing of animals, we obtain 
that breed which attains the greatest weight and earliest 
maturity, on the least quantity of food, the soil then 
secures the greatest profit with the least labour, and 
produces the maximum quantity of animal food of which 
it is capable ; and hence Geology is not only connected 
• Since the above was written, I find that the Society's next meeting 
will be held at Doncaster ; I intend, therefore, to treat first of a 
district that will have more local interest — the Magnesian Limestone 
Tract from Worksop to Ferrybridge. 
