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The grafs upon which the flieep were fed (and 

 which amounted to about an acre) was very little 

 improved for the crop of hay 1781, owing to the 

 dry feafon; but in that of 1782 was greatly fupe- 

 rior to the adjoining parts of the fame field, and 

 more improved in quality than quantity ; for in- 

 Head of an indifferent vegetation fcattered thick 

 with the centaurea fcabiofa, filage, rhinanthus 

 crifta galli, and linum catharticum, with other 

 plants of little worth, it encouraged a very beau- 

 tiful fhcet of the bed plants that can appear in a 

 meadow, viz. the lathyrus pratenfis, achillea mille 

 folium, trifolium repens, trifolium ochroleucrum, 

 trifolium alpeftre, and the plantago lanceolata. 



As I have thus given you the refult of this car- 

 rot experiment, I muft be allowed juft to obferve, 

 that this price of 4d. is great enough to induce 

 any man to cultivate them. We reckon in this 

 country that turnips rarely do more than pay their 

 own expences, and in many years not that. But 

 if a man has the right carrot foil, he may, without 

 manure, and without any extraordinary fertility, 

 expect from four to five hundred bufhels an acre. 

 If he gets four hundred and twenty it is juft 7L; 

 and as the expences amount to about 5I. it leaves 

 a neat profit upon a fallow crop of 2I. an acre, 

 which is greater than attends the beft wheat crops 



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