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Article XXXVI. 



Ofi the Culture of Buck-Wheat i li^jeaf, and Potatoef, 

 alternately ; and the ufes of Buck-Wheat. 



[In a Letter to the Secretary.]] 



Sir, 



I AM not only at all times well inclined to for- 

 ward the views of your patriotick eflablifliment, 

 but I confider the flattering teftimony of the So- 

 ciety's approbation, which 1 lately received for 

 raifing a crop of buck-wheat, to have impofed on 

 me a particular obligation to communicate the beft 

 information in my power, refpedling the cultivation 

 of that vegetable ; and this I undertake with the 

 more readinefs, from a convidlion of its great 

 utility, and that it deferves the attention of every 

 tillafre farmer. 



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It was in 1780 that I began this culture. 

 About feven acres of a fandy foil on Briflingtort 

 common,* having been ftrft tolerably well cleanfed 

 from brambles, furze, &:c. received one ploughing. 

 To reduce the irregularities of the furfacc, it waS 

 rolled; and on the .9th of June in that year, two 

 bufhels and a half of buck-wheat per acre fown, 

 the ground rolled again without harrowing. 



* A very rough piece of land, at that time juft inclofed. 



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