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followed and turniped it, — the Courfe I afterwardi 

 invariably purfued. The. foil was gravelly, with 

 fonrie depth of niould. 



No. II. was a coarfq unkind piece of land, of a 

 foil neither clayey nor gravelly, but fotnething be- 

 tween both, and which my men called chifley. 

 This had been cropped with oats, and a very in* 

 different crop indeed; I dunged it in the fpring, 

 and planted potatoes on half, arid fowed vetches 

 on the other half; the crops of both were equal to 

 my expedation, but the greateft advantage was the 

 benefit the land received from the potatoes, by 

 which it was mellowed fo furprifingly, that I was 

 refolved, contrary to my firft intention, to fovv the 

 field with wheat, which yielded me only four facks 

 per acre. 



No, III. had borne wheat, but the ftubble was 

 ploughed up for turnips, which afforded a little 

 fhcep-feed, though not worth the exppnce. This 

 was a good piece of land, tolerably clean, but 

 wanted reft. The fpring turning out favourable, I 

 altered my intention, which was to have fallowed it 

 and fown it with turnips, and therefore fowed it 

 with barley at hvc ploughings ; with the barley,' 

 three bulhels per acre, I fowed a bulhel of rye-grafs, 

 61b. of Dutch clover, and 61b. of black-grafs, with- 

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