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The following account, it is prcfumed, may in- 

 duce gentlemen and unprejudiced farnriers to try 

 the experiment: — 



A near relation of mine cultivated a field for up- 

 wards of twelve years as follows, and had every 

 year uncommonly large crops. The firft year peafe 

 were fown in drills, two feet (ix inches apart, which 

 were twice hand- hoed, and afterwards earthed. 

 They were gathered green, and fent to market, and 

 the draw or haulm was cut and ufed as fodder for 

 horles. The whole crop was' cleared by the 15th 

 of July. The ground was immediately ploughed 

 and fowed with turnips broad- cad, which at the 

 proper feafon were twice hoed, and were fold for 

 5I. per acre to a cow-keeper, who cleared them 

 from the land the beginning of February in the 

 fecond year. Another ploughing then took place, 

 and after the earth was well pulverized it was fown 

 with fpring wheat, broad-cafl, which was never 

 hoed or weeded, nor did it require it. When this 

 crop was cleared in the autumn of the fecond year, 

 the ground was ploughed without delay, and fpin- 

 age was fown in four-feet drills; this flood the win- 

 teri and midway between thefe drills garden beans 

 were planted the following January, or the third 

 yearj both crops were hoed. The fpinage was 

 part fent to market, and part given to cows, and 



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