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crop was two hundred and eighty-three Wincheller 

 bufhels and half.* Some years preceding this ex- 

 periment, (which was made chiefly to further the 

 views of the Bath Agricultural Society) I have 

 been in the culture of buck-wheat, and have triedl, 

 it in various foils, and at various times of fowing, 

 from the beginning of April to the 22d of July. 

 The refult of my obfervations is, that the cultiva- 

 tion of this grain is well worth the hufband man's 

 attention; that it delights in a mellow fandy foil; 

 and fucceeds well in any dry, loofe, healthy land, 

 and moderately fo in a free loamy ftone-bralh. A 

 fliif clay is its avcrfion, and it is entirely labour 

 lofl to fow it in wet poachy ground. 



The moft proper time for fowing it, I find to be 

 from the middle of May to the middle of June. 

 I would choofe rather to fow it even in the begin- 

 ning of July, than before the middle of May; for 

 it is very impatient of cold in its firfl: vegetation. 



A crop of buck-wheat is, in my opinion, Co 

 much clear gain to the farmer, feeing that the land 

 is thereby fo well prepared for a fucceeding crop, 

 even better than by a fallow ; befides that it aftords 

 a noble refource for raifing manure. 



I am, &c. 



NEHEMIAH BARTLEY. 



Brijlingiony Feb. lo, 1785. 



• Not quite twenty, four bufliels per acre. 



