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fervoir which conflantly receives the draining of my 

 dung-heap and ftables. As the light corn floated 

 on the top, I (kimmed it off, and let the reft ftand 

 twenty-four hours. On taking it from the water, 

 I mixed the feed grain with a fufficient quantity of 

 lifted wood afties, to make it fpread regularly, and 

 fowed three fields with it. I began fowing the 

 1 6th, and finiftied the 23d of April. The produce 

 was (ixty bulhels per acre, of good clean barley, 

 without 2s\^ Jmall or green corn, or weeds at harveft. 

 No perfon in this country had better grain. 



I fowed alfo feveral other fields with the fame 

 feed dry, and without any preparation; but the 

 crop, like thofe of my neighbours, was very poor; 

 not more than twenty bulhels per acre, and much 

 mixed with green corn and weeds when harvefted. 

 1 alfo fowed fome of the feed dry on one ridge in 

 each of my former fields, but the produce was very- 

 poor in comparifon of the other parts of the field. 



I am, &c. 



JAMES CHAPPLE. 



Bodmin^ March 12, 1784- ' 



[We confider this experiment as a very interefting one, 

 'and recommend general trials to be made both in wet and 

 dry fpring feafons.] 



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