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66 ae On Plaister of Paris. 
Result. Continued good, I believe ; not improved 
from last year. Aye 
Process. April 15th. Sowed twelve bushels of plais- 
ter upon five acres of the young orchard; sown before 
the 4th of April, 1788. | 
)» Result. 1790. No perceptible improvement, the clo- 
ver and timothy being over-run with blue grass. 
Speneegeccanem 
Process. April 6th, 1791. Sowed twenty-eight bushels 
of plaister upon the field above the orchard ; quantity 
sixteen acres; soil a light loam, in parts mixed with 
a flinty, and in parts with a gritty gravel, under tillage 
at least sixty years; a few years before sowing with 
plaister, limed at the rate of about forty bushels per 
acre, and several times in my memory manured with 
barn yard dung in parts, and lightly sown with red clo- 
ver seed the 9th of April, 1789; the roots much injur- 
ed by a hard winter, but a profusion of young clover 
shooting up. 
Result. 1791. Although a dry and unfavourable sea- 
son for pasture, considerably improved in the fore part 
of the season, and vei) greatly in the latier part. 
ee eentaneens 
Process. April 13th. Sowed four bushels of plaister 
upon one a «i ait half acre of the lot before the door; 
‘the soil a light loam, under tillage a century, and always, 
rng ; ‘ 
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