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nature gave me the following account: — That, 

 previous to his purchafing this field, twenty-fix 

 years ago, it was fown with barley five years fuc- 

 ceflively. That he then planted it the firft year 

 with beans, and it produced twelve quarters; next 

 with wheat, of w r hich it produced fourteen quar- 

 ters; and that he has fown it perpetually every 

 year fince, except one, when it was laid to clover, 

 of which, it was computed, he mowed feven tons; 

 after which he let the haygrafs for five guineas. 

 Other years it has produced of boiling peafe ten 

 quarters ; of barley twenty quarters ; and of white 

 oats twenty^five quarters : their meafure nine gal- 

 lons to the bufhel. 



Mr. Stirling fays, that although this ground 

 has been fown perpetually every year, except the 

 one year above-mentioned, it has never been 

 manured more than once. It had then a thin 

 dunging for wheat; which grew fo rank that it 

 was of little value. At all other times the pro- 

 duce has been very great. The wheat and beans 

 generally grow to upwards of fix feet high. Mr. 

 Stirling has it ploughed and fowed by the neigh- 

 bouring farmers, and feems not to have obferved 

 any particular mode of cultivation or courfe of 

 cropping. 



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