On Plaister of Paris = = 69 
loam, and excessively poor before liming; sown with 
clover seed March 18th, 1793. 
Result. 1794. Improvement no ways inferior, if not 
superior, (the extreme poverty of the soil considered) 
to any heretofore. 
N. B. 1796. The pasture cmaets declined, al- 
though very good compared to its former state. 
Process. April 8th, 1795. Sowed twelve bushels of 
plaister upon the young orchard sown with red cloverand 
timothy seed March 11th, 1794; and ploughed, limed 
and dunged since sowing it with plaister, in April, 1790. 
Result. 1795. The improvement perfectly equal to | 
the first sowing. 
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Process. April 8th. Sowed the peach lot with two 
bushels of plaister, being the siath time in seven years, 
without any other manure or tillage. 
Result. 1796. Upon mowing first crop appears 
equally good with any other crop heretofore ; which to- 
gether with many other experiments, convinces me that 
a repetition of plaister without an addition of any other 
manure, wilt not injure, if it does not improve the crops . 
of grass. 
Process. April 28th. Sowed thirteen and an. half | 
‘bushels of plaister upon six acres in the strawberry 
