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and attention that the drains be kept open, that it 

 may be- overflowed when dry weather hurts it, and 

 fupplied in all places as they appear thin, by flick- 

 ing junks in, as before defcribed, the land is per- 

 petually eftabliflied with the grafs, and yields it in a 

 mod extraordinary abundance. 



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Article XXV. 



Experiments on Drilling* 

 [By Sir John Anstruther, to the Secretary.] 



Sir, 



Send you fome fnnall experiments I made on my 

 crop of 1787. The produce of part of it being 

 late in the feafon before it was threflied, it was late 

 in the year before I received the account of it. 



I am forry to obferve an error in the publication 

 of the lail experiment I fent to the Society, of 

 crop 1786. 



Page 262, line 3. " With partitions of fourteen 

 inches, two intervals three feet four inches.*' 



I cannot imagine how I could have overlooked 

 fuch a blunder in the copy. 



There 



