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of barley-meal to a pail-full; and it was fuch meat 
as I was not afhamed of fending a quarter of to 
Dr. Lettfom, which no food could have made it in 
a fortnight, if it had been ftarved for fix weeks be- 
fore: but the chief of my crop ! packed in a dry 
ditch, as I then did my potatoes, and removed them 
at the fame time in the {pring into a barn, and co- 
vered them with fome ftraw, which kept them per- 
fecily good till thofe of the following year were 
large enough to begin to ufe. . In the year 1790, I 
fowed at different times and places about three 
acres, the chief of which was fown late in May, 
and fome in June, on light land, which had been 
exhaufted by my predeceffor; but manured by me 
as the reft of the fhift was for turnips. The land 
being in an open field at the meeting of three 
roads, I wifhed to fhew my neighbours that it 
might be fed on the ground: what was fown before 
the firft week in May, had feveral plants run to 
feed; but neverthelefs, it furprifed every body to 
fee how long it kept my cows. What was fown 
late acquired but little bulk, and the crown of very 
few of them rofe from the ground. My cows cer- 
tainly picked up too much dirt with thefe, which 
were fed in very wet weather; and whether from 
the dirt or the lufcioufnefs of the roots, two of my 
cows frequently dropped down fuddenly, and when 
they were bled, their blood was very black; never- 
thelefs, my dairy-maid complained that the cows 
did 
