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$tbly. The wheat is drilled on the fame ground 

 every fecond year; and Mr. A. continued that 

 mode to advantage eleven fucceffive years, in the 

 ground above alluded to; his tenth crop produ- 

 cing eighteen bufhels an acre, and his eleventh 

 crop fixteen bufhels per acre, after great de varia- 

 tion from mice, the crop remaining in the mow 

 almoft two years. 



6fbly. He manured the ground for the firft 

 crop with twelve hogfheads of lime per acre, and 

 eight putt or cart loads, of this country, of rot- 

 ten dung, to three acres and a quarter, at the ex- 

 pence of 20s. 4d. per acre. For the fixth crop 

 he manured again with twenty hogfheads of lime 

 an acre, mixed with forehead -earth* and the rub- 

 bifh of an old lime-kiln, at the expence of il. 19s. 

 an acre : And he ufed no other manure for eleven 

 crops, except about twenty loads of earth and 

 rubbifh at another time, on a fmall portion of 

 the field w 7 here the natural foil was remarkably 

 thin, which, if charged to the whole field, would 

 not be 2s. per acre at the utmoft : the whole ex- 

 pence of manure for the eleven years amounting 

 to nearly 5s. 7d. per acre per annum. 



Mr. A. has fometimes ploughed or horfe- 

 hoed his alleys only twice during the growth of 



his 



• Head-lands digged up. 



