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time, and harrowed it fine : Then I fowed it with 

 Zealand barley, ten pecks per acrej two, weeks 

 after fowing the barley, I threw in three pounds of 

 Dutch clover. Both the clover and the barley 

 foon made a fine appearance; the latter yielded five 

 quarters per acre, and the former was a good thick 

 plant at Michaelmas. 



In the fpring following I drefled it with forty 

 bufliels of foaper*s afhes per acre, and in the fum- 

 mer mowed it twice : the firft cutting was upwards 

 of two tons, and the latter about twenty- five hun- 

 dred per acre. I then broke it up for wheat, and 

 had an excellent crop the fummer following. 



The lime, clay, and afhes, had doubtlefs their 

 fhare in producing thefe crops; but I attribute my 

 fuccefs chiefly to the repeated ploughings and burn« 

 ing the rubbifh. 



This land, which when I broke it up was not 

 worth five (hillings, is now worth twenty-five fhiU 

 lings per acre. 



I am, &c. 



G.L. 



June 10, 1779- 



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