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guinea for a waggon-load, and fetch it five or Ci% 

 miles, and they find their account in fo doing. 



Another experinaent, I think, may not be im- 

 proper to mention: In 06lober lad, having afield 

 ready for fowing wheat, I manured one acre of it 

 with ten bulhels of old feathers, procured from an 

 upholfterer, ploughing them in as they were fpreadj 

 and from the fuccefs of this experiment, am per- 

 fuaded there is no kind of manure for either wheat 

 or fummer corn land equal to it. The acre thus 

 manured produced me near forty-eight bulhels — 

 the other part of the field not twenty-eight bulhels 

 on an, average. The quality of the land, and of 

 the feed fown, was equal ; the extra produce could, 

 therefore, only proceed from the manure. 



I wifh all pofiible fuccefs to your undertaking j 

 and am. 



Your's, Sec, 

 0^. 4, 1777. 



J.B. 



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