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A neighbour of mine, who is a very good farmel*, 

 had a field containing thirty-eight acres, the foil a 

 cold wet clay, which, for fome years after he held 

 it, fcarcely paid its rent. Determined^ however, 

 to try what could be done with it, he under-drained 

 it, and, in the fpring 1775, mended it with turf' 

 earthy digged from the borders of fields and high- 

 ways, mixed with ftable-dung. In March he gave 

 it a good ploughing, and fowed it with Zealand 

 barley : after the barley came up, he threw in ten 

 pounds of the common red clover per acre.* 

 The advantage of the under-draining and manure 

 were foon apparent. The barley was an exceeding 

 fine crop, producing feven quarters per acre on an 

 average throughout the field. 



The following fpring the clover ihot early, and 

 in the fummer proved a very ftrong crop. In 

 May he turned in all his cattle, which by the loth 

 of June, had fed it off quite bare. He then took 

 them out, and let the clover ftand for feed. The 

 fummer proving wet, it fucceeded well, and the 

 average produce of the field was fcvcn bufhels and 

 a half per acre, the whole of which he fold at 

 thirty-nine Ihillings per bufhel — amounting to 

 5SSL ijs. 



* Six or fcven pound? per acvc is fuppofe4 to be a fufficlent 

 quantity. 



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