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The vegetation appeared in five or fix days, as is 

 conflantly the cafe be the weather wet or dry. The 

 growth was fo rapid, that the fern, with which this 

 land greatly abounded, was completely kept under. 

 About the middle of September the crop was 

 mown, but, by reafon of a great deal of rain about 

 that time, it was not fecured until the beginning of 

 Odober; hence a lofs of great part of the grain 

 by {bedding, as well as fome eaten by birds. How- 

 ever, there were faved about twenty-four Win- 

 chefler bufhels per acre, which, notwithftanding its 

 long expofure to the weather, received no fort of 

 damage, only perhaps, that the fined and mofi: per- 

 fect grain was the firfl: to fall from the plant. The 

 ground after this had almoft the appearance of a 

 fallow, and was immediately ploughed. 



When it had lain a moderate time to meliorate, 

 and to receive the influences of the atmofphere, it 

 was harrowed, fown with Lammas wheat, and 

 ploughed in under furrow, in a contrary diredlion 

 to the firft: ploughing. Thus a piece of land, which 

 in the month of April was altogether in a ftate of 

 nature, in the following November was feen under 

 a promifing crop of what is well ftiled the king of 

 grain, and this without the aid of manure, or of 

 any very great degree of tillage. Nor was the har- 

 vefl by any means deficient; for fevcral pcrfons 

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