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Gospel) to every member of the corporation who is blessed with 

 equal or greater means, ' Go and do thou likewise.' " 



A year later he reported that " the lucern sown over the wheat 

 in the spring of 1793 yielded nothing, so that the whole of this 

 must be stated as loss, except that the expense of gypsum should 

 be deducted from the account, as it produced a very noble crop of 

 white clover, on ground on which I should have otherwise have 

 had little pasture." 



" It is, however, to be remarked that the red clover seed sown 

 over the wheat at the same time, in the manner mentioned in the 

 experiment, succeeded no better than the lucern; this must be 

 attributed in part to the season. The experiment of lucern upon 

 wheat should be tried again, but only on a small scale, as I am 

 inclined upon the whole to think it will seldom succeed. 



" The lucern sown with the oats, as I mentioned, was so choked 

 by it as to promise nothing; that sown with buckwheat very little, 

 for the same reason, and both were plowed up. The remaining 

 experiments are those in which the lucern was put in with barley 

 and with turnips. The first of these I must divide into two classes : 

 first, that sown on light loam, and, second, that sown on clay. 



" Profit and expense per acre, of two acres of lucern, sown with 

 barley and clover, April, 1793: 



£ 8. d. 



26th June, cut and made into hay. 1 2 



26th July 1 5 



20th September 1 4 



3 11 

 Expense per acre cutting and making 8s. per acre. . 14 



3 tons 11 cwt. of hay, at 2s. 6 8 17 6 



Deduct expenses ,. ., 1 4 



Clear profit . . . £7 13 6 



Part of this was injured by the poultry and pigs, which were 

 constantly upon it. Those parts on which clover was mixed with 

 the lucern very much inferior to that on which the lucern grew 

 alone." 



