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this year drilled with horfe-beans, which (if the 

 gentlemen will think it worthy their perufal) is 

 much at their fervice. 



The field (about feven acres) which produced 

 the beans, was fo barren, that I could not let it in 

 the year 1783 for ten fhillings an acre; the foil 

 about four inches deep, on a very ftiff clay, was 

 about nine years paft greatly impoverifhed by burn- 

 ing, and improper cultivation. By my mode of 

 management, it produced me laft year upwards of 

 one hundred and eighty bufhels of excellent cone 

 wheat, nine gallon meafure;* one hundred and 

 forty of which I fold for feed at feven fhillings 

 and nine-pence per bufhel; the remainder made 

 very good bread for my family. 



Time did not permit my ploughing up the 

 ground, before the beginning of December laft; 

 and it was then done carelefsly, in irregular ridges 

 from four feet and half to fix feet wide, as I in- 

 tended it to have been again ploughed twice more 

 in the fpring. The fevere froft fruftrated my in- 

 tentions ; this field could not be cultivated before 

 April. The furface was well pulverized by the 

 froft, and en ploughing a fingle ridge, I found 

 the under-ftratum of too hard and confolidated a 



• About 28 bufliels and a half per acre Winchefter meafure. 



texture 



