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was a great deal of light unripe feed, which in fomc 

 meafure accounts for No. 7 billing fliort of No. i 

 in that article more than half. As this lafl inftance 

 undoubtedly gives a mod decilive proof of the in- 

 ftantaneous and aftonifliing effefts of gypfum on 

 fainfoin, I fliall here clofe the experiments and re- 

 marks on that plant, and proceed to obferve, that 



The lower part of the fame field was laid down with 

 Cow-grafs, fown upon wheat in March 1792; the 

 foil a light loam, to the depth of ten or twelve feet, 

 with a mixture of flints. This part was gypfumed 

 at the times mentioned as above, and the fame lines 

 of divifion for the foot; and intervals where nothing 

 was fown ran direftly acrofs both parts. The cow- 

 grafs being mown for hay the 7th of July, I mea- 

 fured two fquare perches, taken within a few feet of 

 each other, jufl before they were carried to the ftack, 

 and weighed their contents, which were as follow: 

 No. I weighed 421b. per perch, per acre /. s. d.- 



60 cwt. at2s 600 



Charges of 6 bufliels of gypfum at 2S. gd. 016 6 



5 Z ^ 

 No. 2. Natural growth, per perch 151b. 



per acre 21 cwt. i qr. 2olb. at 2s. - 2 2 10 



Extra profit by gypfum 308 



N. B. This proved remarkably fine hay, and i^; 



now worth 4I. los. per load This profit comes 



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