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NO. VI. EIGHT ACRES, 



Of a kind of black earth, approaching to peat, and 

 under it, at the depth of four inches, a ftrong 

 white clay. 



This kind of foil is as light as chafF, and will not 

 bring any kind of corn (buck-wheat excepted) 

 to perfeftion. I had linned it, and fown it with 

 oats in 1786, but they all withered away before 

 they came out into ear, though at their firft 

 coming up they looked beautifully flourifhing. 



After fallowing this field, I planted it in ridges five 

 feet wide, and alleys three feet. In digging the 

 intervals or alleys to cover the fets, I made the 

 men dig deep, and bring up two or three inches 

 of the clay. After hoeing, they were earthed 

 up with two or three inches more of the clay, 

 fo that the beds were elevated at leaft a foot 

 above the alleys. When they were dug out, I 

 gave the men 5s. per acre extra to dig the beds 

 down to the level of the alleys i by thefe means a 

 large portion of clay was intimately mbced with 

 the light fpungy furface. 



This entirely remedied the defeft in the foil, and 

 the field produced the ftibfequent year a very 



good 



