r 213 ] 



Brought up ^.13 o jl 



Threfhing fixteen quarters . . i 12 o 



Horfe-hoeing the intervals — 090 

 Carting to market — < o 16 o 



Total expence £-^S ^7 7% 



Produce 16 quarters, fold at 48s. per qr. 38 11 o 

 Value of ftraw — • 290 



41 o o 

 Expences as above IS 17 7i 



Nett profit £'"2.^ 2 4i 



Both thefe crops were damaged by the mildew; 

 but the five-acre field lefs than the other. The fix- 

 acre field, however, had it received no fijch injury, 

 would never have yielded in any proportion to the 

 other; as it produced in the ftraw only fix fair 

 driving waggon loads; whereas from the five-acre 

 field I had kvtn loads larger than are commonly 

 laid up in harveft time, although only half the land 

 w as planted. I am, &c. 



Trimkyy Tiear Jpfwich^ .H. J. CLOSE. 



May 18, 1784. 



In a letter from Mr. Close, dated Februaiy 

 1786, relative to the experiment on the five-acre 

 crop above related, he adds as follows: — 



P 2 •• Since 



