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The buckwheat left this piece in exceeding fine 

 condition for wheat, not a weed or fcarce even a 

 blade of grafs was to be feen throughout the whole. 

 Obferve: — An acre of this piece was fown with 

 turnip-rooted cabbage, for an experiments which 

 failed, though the plants came up thick enough; 

 yet after hoeing and weeding, they made fuch little 

 progrefs, that the weeds got the afcendency and 

 choaked them. Deduct likewife about forty lug of 

 grubbed hedge-rows, and a road running up the 

 middle, which is included in the feven acres. 



The fields No. II. and III. contained, the one four, 

 the other two acres, fomewhat ftronger land than 

 No. I. j theexpofure a gentle defcent towards the eaft, 

 except about an acre lying hollow, which is fubjecT: 

 to be overflown after heavy rains. Thefe pieces 

 were oats in 1784. As foon as No. I. was fown, I 

 gave them one earth j the weather being likely to 

 continue dry, I harrowed and fowed directly. A 

 little of the feed came up between the ridges, where 

 the ground was fomewhat moid ; the reft remained 

 as dry as when fowed till July, when the rain that 

 occafioned No. I. to flourifh fo much, caufed this 

 to make its appearance ; but it was very irregular, 

 draggling and weak. It foon came into bloom, 

 tillered but little, and growed (lowly, fcarce attain- 

 ing above a foot or 18 inches in height, and fore- 

 boding 



