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acre, and the produce full nine facks and two 

 bufliels upon the average. 



No. XVI, was a barley flubble, with a good plant 

 of clover. I drefled the clover well, and mowed 

 near two tons at two crops, and fowed the land 

 with wheat. In the fpring the wheat was very thin 

 and worm-eaten. I fowed fome foot over the parts 

 that were injured, which flopped the further pro- 

 grefs of the wormj and the land being in good 

 heart, from the dung I had put on the clover, the 

 wheat tillered amazingly, and produced, totally un- 

 expedled by me, three quarters and a half per acre. 

 However a fpring cleaning of foul land for barley 

 may anfwer for that crop and the crop of grais, 

 yet when the land comes to be fown with wheat 

 afterwards, the couch will almoft get the better of 

 the wheat, and inevitably do it confiderable damage; 

 of this I had an inftance in No* XVII. which was 

 a clover-ftubble left after barley, where great pains 

 had been taken to clean the land and rid it of 

 couchj but the land, when turned up and fown with 

 wheat, was fo foul, that the crop hardly paid the 

 expences, and I repented I did not fummer-fallow 

 and fovv it with turnips out of the clover. 



No. XVIII. I fowed after peafe with white oats 

 and clover, but the clover did not take kindly; and 



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