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converfant in fuch things efti mated the produce 

 from twenty-fix to thirty bufhels per acre; I had 

 not then the precaution to regifter the exad mea- 

 fure. As foon as the wheat crop was taken off, 

 the ground had one ploughing, and on the ift of 

 September following was fown with turnip-feed. 

 The turnips were not large, but of an herbage fo 

 abundant, as in the following fpring to fupport one 

 hundred a-id twenty ewes with their Iambs, which 

 were fed on it by folding four weeks. After this 

 it was manured with a compofition of rotten dung 

 and natural earth, about twenty putt loads per acre, 

 and planted with potatoes. The crop fold for one 

 hundred and thirty-eight pounds, befides a con- 

 fiderable number ufed in the family, and a quantity 

 referved with which ten acres were planted the fol- 

 lowing feafon. The enfuing autumn it was again 

 fown with wheat, and produced an excellent crop. 

 In the fpring of 1784, it was manured and planted 

 with potatoes, as in the preceding inftance; the 

 crop (though tolerably good) by no means equal to 

 the former, producing about one hundred facks 

 per acre only. 



This land is now for the third time under a crop 

 of wheat, it being my intention to try how far 

 this mode of alternate cropping, one year with po- 

 tatoes, and another with wheat, may be carried. 



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