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On examining my plant of clover, -^c. ^fcer the 



pats were off, the couch-^rafs and clutter, [^£^^] 



from its having been laid down very foul, had al- 



moft totally deftroyed the young grafsj there being 



fo little left, that no profit could be expelled from 



letting ;t (land. I therefore had it ploughed up 



immediately; and my crop of pats having been 



.houfed pretty early, I gave it a good tillage. After 



getting out as much of the couch-grafs and rubbifli 



as I could, before the winter came on, I had it 



ploughed up in .rough iletches, (or fingle ridges) 



,^th4t jt^niight have. every advanuge of the winter's 



froft to mellow it, which it did very efFedually, 



lln the fpring my plough went to work again: we 



found the roots of couch, &c. which had been dif^ 



jiirbed by the tillage in autumn, generally dead. 



Then I fowed it again with whi^ oats and grafs-r 



^^eds, not the rubbifh of a Jiay-loft, which abounds 



^ generally with the feeds of numberlefs weeds; but 



,the bed I could colled. My neighbours perfuaded 



,nie to dung it; but this I omitted till the crop of 



oats was got in. I then drefled it well .with the beft 



ftable-dung I could procure^ My crop of oats was 



but indifferent ; but my grafc.the following fummer, 



being of the moft excellent kinds, was full two 



pns per acre at one cutting. I did not mow it a 



<^cond time, as I wanted the feed— not did I cut 



