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it on arable, and found it equally ferviceable on 

 corn as on grafs lands. 



If this relation of my experience fliould induce any 

 of the Weftern farmers to follow my example, they 

 will have no caufe to repent their labour; and it will 

 fufliciently recompence me for the trifling tafk I 

 have undertaken in communicating this to you. 



I am, &c. 



R. S, 



W-^-^, 'July lo, 1779, 



Article XLV. 

 On the Management of Clover^ 



[By a Gentleman Farmer in Suffolk.] 

 Gentlemen, 



AS clover is a gra& which fuits our climate 

 better than almoft any other, I think the 

 proper cultivation of it an objeft of national im- 

 portances and therefore take the liberty of inform- 

 ing you, how I have for fev^ral years managed i^ 

 with great fuccefs, 



In April, after my barley is come up, I fow 

 ^bput eight pounds of clover-feed per acre on it^ 



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