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I have reafon to think, the farmer would find 

 himfelf fome pence the richer in the courfe of a 

 year, by attending to this information ; at leaft, I 

 am confident it would Ihorten the labour of many 

 a weary arm, and prevent much vexation to a mul- 

 titude of good houfewives. 



My experiments have not as yet afcertained the 

 exact quantity of the acid which is neceflary to 

 produce the proper efitd:, nor the precife time of 

 its being mixed with the cream. But I appre- 

 hend, a table fpoonful or two to a gallon of cream 

 will be fufficient; nor would I recommend it to be 

 applied till the cream has undergone fome con- 

 fiderable agitation. 



Jan. 9, 1784. RUSTICUS. 



Article XLII. 



An Account of an Experiment in the Cultivation of 

 Buck-Wheat, \_Fagopyrum'\ made at Brijlington. 



[By Nehemiah Bartlev, efq.J 

 Gentlemen, 



BETWEEN the 14th and the 2 ill of June 

 1783, 1 ploughed a piece of land on Brifling- 

 ton common, containing about twelve acaes. It 



wa;s 



