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out the Impropriety of feeding fainfoin on fucli foils; 

 but I think it may fairly be prefumed that had both 

 the nvuTibers in queftion been mown for hay, No. 7 

 would have exceeded as much as it now falls fhort 

 of the value of No. i. And here another intercft- 

 ing matter occurs to me, which is, that I purpofely 

 referved half an acre of the poor chalk, out of 

 which No. 7 was taken, to fee what effect the gyp- 

 fum would have had upon it if fown after vegetation 

 had made fome confiderable progrefs; accordingly, 

 on the 17th of May, I had three bufliels fown on 

 that part, the fainfoin being then about fix inches 

 high, but looking very yellow and unpromifmg, 

 whilll the greater part of the field, which was gyp- 

 fumed a month before, had now attained a deep 

 healthy verdure and a vigorous flioot. I raufl: own, 

 there appeared little probability of this late fowing 

 coming to any thing, as the powder hung upon the 

 leaves almofl: two days, and the weather was appa- 

 rently fet in very dry; a gentle rain, however, falling 

 the fecond night, waflied it all off, and, I fuppofe, 

 fet it to work ; for in five or fix days I could perceive 

 the fainfoin gain colour confiderably, and it continued 

 making fuch a rapid progrefs as to bid fair, by the 

 middle of June, to outftrip all the reft. On the 

 loth of July, I had the fainfoin mown, the feed be- 

 ing ripe, except the half acre, which was fuffered 

 to ftand a week longer, in order to gain a proportion 

 of feed equal to the reft ; but I found at laft, there 



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