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fo entirely in uuifon with thofe I have flated before, 

 as to require no comment. I ihall only ftate, that 

 the part of the field under fainfoin is worth 6s. per 

 acre, and the cow-grafs part los. rent. 



1 fhall now enter upon my laft experiment, 

 which was upon a piece of Dutch Clover, fown 

 the preceding fpring upon wheat. Having my 

 doubts whether gypfum would operate with equal 

 cffeft upon this plant, as upon the tap-rooted tribe, 

 I only fowed about half an acre with it, upon two 

 difl:in£t patches chofen where the foil varied mofl 

 in quality; one part being a loofe mould four or five 

 inches deep on chalk, the other a kindly ftiffifti loam 

 to a confiderable depth, with a flight mixture of 

 pebbles. The whole piece of clover was about five 

 acres, and upon about three acres of it (the loamy 

 part) there was in general a vigorous but thin plant, 

 of felf-fown wheat, which promifed in appearance 

 to yield from two to three bufliels per acre. This, 

 I thought, added to the clover feed, would help to 

 make out a tolerable faving crop, confidering the 

 extreme dry fummer. The fequel will prove, how- 

 ever, how much I was miftaken ; for by referring to 

 the fubfequent ftatement of the two perches A. B. 

 both gypfumed alike, and having an equal plant of 

 clover, it appears that by fuffering the wheat to 

 ripen on B. there was a deficiency on the clover feed 

 amounting to 7I. per acre (a material obje6l, had the 

 three acres of loam been gypfumed) merely to gain 



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