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Wednesday 30th October 1833 Returned from Newcastle by Throckley, examining the state of the Colliery there. The piece of Coal cut into, continues good & though the demand is limited I hope it may repay the Lessees in time for their unsuccessful attempts. Came to Whittle to see the building in hand, which in another week will be covered in & finished. Proceeded to Corbridge. Just before leaving Belford in the evening of the 22nd the Tenant of Outchester applied to me respecting the draining & ploughing a marshy grass Field which he would have done before, had he not been undetermined about holding on the Farm. I regretted that he had not mentioned before that I might have examined it with reference to that, although I knew its general character. I wrote from Howick desiring my Son to go over and report to me concerning it. He states that it contains 12 Acres, of which about nine are in a very unproductive state, being wet & covered with rushes & course grass. That the soil if made dry is not of bad quality & that the Farm having 80 Acres of old pasture besides can spare this, but at any rate, it would be much improved by draining, limeing etc even though it were thought fit to restore it to pasture. I have in consequence written to desire him to go again & proceed with the draining. It may assist the tenant in a dear bargain, & will be a permanent improvement to the farm. I prefer employing my Son there who is only 15 miles from that as well as Scremerston Estates, to sending Mr Hunt as it would take him a week from home, at considerable expense, when he could be ill spared for his time, is fully occupied with the embankments draining & repairs on this part of the property.
