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was harrowed in the di region of the plough. Two 

 bufhels per acre were then fown, and a roller was 

 run over it. Nine acres of this groiind is a red- 

 difh fandy loam; the other three acres a wet clay, 

 which, for want of draining, was fomewhat poachy. 

 The former produced a moft luxuriant herbage, 

 which efFedlually got the maftery of every kind of 

 weeds; even the quick-fhootin^ fern could na| 

 keep pace with it. a 



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• The remamirtg' three acres of clay failed very 

 much ; there not being on the whole fo much her-, 

 bage as on a fingle acre of the other. The crop 

 was harvefted the beginning of September; and 

 produced upwards of twenty waggon loads of 

 ftraw, and only two hundred and thirty bufhel? 

 and half of grain^ nearly twenty bufhels per acre. - 



Between the 8th and the 2 2d of Odlober follow- 

 ing, the fame ground was fowtn with red lammas 

 wheat, two bufhels to an acre. It had one plough* 

 ing, after which the grain was eared in; the ridges 

 drefled or righted, by clofing the furro\ys, ancji 

 trimming up the loofe earth. 



In that part of the land where the buck-wheat 

 had failed, the wheat failed alfo; and that as cxacftly 

 9,3 it is pofTible to imagine. The produce of this 



crop 



