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Excerpt from The Farmer's Magazine, Vol. 7: January to June, MDCCCLV The amount is equal to £3 4s. Per acre on the average; but this did not include the sluices, which are of oak, and cost about 28. 6d. Each. In the earlier and middle parts of the work, I found these to average about ten to the acre but in the por tion most recently irrigated the sluices are not yet put down. Clods are used instead but they some times burst, and always tend to deposit soil in the gutters, besides occupying much more time in placing and removing than the management of sluices would. It is but fair, therefore, to add the cost of sluices to the capital account, making alto gether an average of £4 98. Per acre. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.