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produce of they^/ part was eight* bufhcls per acre 

 more than the Jown j and declared to be fixpcncc 

 per bufhcl better." 



I myfelf have this ytzx fet twenty-three acres, 

 nine of which arc old grafs-land, ploughed this 

 feafon for the firft time; feven acres are a lay of 

 feven years; and the remaining feven have been 

 in grafs only two years. The whole work (viz, 

 ploughing, rolling, fetting, and harrowing) was 

 performed in feventeen days, by three ploughs, 

 having a pair of horfes and one man to each plough, 

 five men dibbling, and twenty children dropping ; 

 the roll and bufh-harrow employed another man. 

 The land was as follows: The firft field a black 

 moorifh foil, with a clay under it — this, with us, 

 is called a woodcock foil. The next feven acres 

 (a hill) were on the top a ftrong clay, and the 

 lower part a mixed foil. The laft feven acres, a 

 li^ht rich land. 



• The dilTerence of eight bulhels per acre is fo great, that we were 

 ijncUned to tliiuk there muft have been fome error in tranfcrlbing the 

 experiment ; and accordingly wrote to the Gentleman who favoured 

 •13 with the account. He has fince informed us, that on repeated cn« 

 quiry of the parties who fet, reaped and threlhed the com, he is aflured 

 It u as matter of facSl, and has not any reason to doubt the veracity of 

 ihofe who related it. It was, however, a lingular inftance, for which 

 we cannot account, otherwife than by fuggefting that the corn on the 

 nctches fown broad-caft, being when fown left uncovered^ might be 

 a great part of it devoured by birdi and vcmua before it was har- 

 rowed ia. 



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