68 . On Plaister of Paris. 
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1796. Upon mowing the first crop, the clover nearly 
run out; good crop of timothy. 
Process. April 2d. Sowed seven bushels of plaister 
upon the lot before the door, sown before with plaister 
the 13th of April, 1791. 
Result. 1793. Equally improved with the first sowing. 
1796. Clover almost over run with blue grass. 
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Process. April 8th. Sowed twenty-eight bushels of 
plaister upon the upper field; quantity fourteen acres 
sown with red clover seed the i9th of March, 1792; 
in tillage eighty years; limed in the fall of 1790; and 
in parts lightly manured with dung; soil a light isin- 
glass loam, with a small part, mixed with gritty and 
‘flinty gravel. 
Result. 1793. Perfectly equal, if not superiorly im- 
proved with any heretofore; no perceptible difference 
between any of the different qualitied soils. 
1796. N. B. This field was so remarkably unfavour- 
able to pasture, that it would not have subsisted fourteen 
sheep reputably through the season, although it is now 
one of the best of my pasture fields. 
Process. April Tth, 1794. Sowed twenty-five bushels 
of plaister upon fifteen acres in the sand field; in tillage 
at least fifty years; limed in the falls of 1789 and 1792, at 
_ about forty busheis per acre each time; the soil a light 
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