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productive, particularly all the latter part of the 
feafon. The great lofs and injury fuftained by 
thefe failures has made the farmers more attentive 
in their choice of feed, and greatly advanced the 
price of that which can be relied on; fo that Mr. 
Peacey feeded an unufual quantity laft year, to an- 
{wer the demand which he forefaw he fhould have ~ 
for it; it isalready engaged at the advanced price 
of half-a-guinea per buthel, which price was fixed 
on it by fome gentlemen who had experienced its 
value, and thought it would not only properly re- 
ward the attention which had preferved fo valuable 
a grafs, but be the means of making it more gene- 
rally known, and encouraging the culture of it, to 
~ the exclufion of all the inferior forts. Mr. Peacey 
has likewife cultivated the orchis grafs, a broad- 
leaved grafs, that fprings directly after the fcythe, 
in mowing grounds; he finds this very ufeful on 
barren land, that will bear no other grafs. A bank 
of this defcription adjoining his downs is covered 
with the orchis grafs, and from the flock lying on it, 
and paring it down, it feems very palatable tothem. 
Wheat-—The method of fowing this grain in the 
diftrict under notice, is rather fingular. The land 
is ploughed from two to fix weeks before fowing, 
as circumftances permit; if it gets quite grafly, it 
isthought better. The firft rain that falls in Auguft 
in fufficient quantity to thoroughly foak the land, 
begins the feed time; from thence to the middle 
of 
