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rii'-ed by firfl; ilamping it in a ftamping mill, and then 

 grinding it in a common grift mill. The finer its pul- 

 verization, the better ; it will thereby be more gene- 

 rally diffufed. It is bell to fow it in a wet day ; but 

 if that is not convenient, it fliould be a little moiftened, 

 when you can fow it at any time. The moft approved 

 quantity for gi-afs, is fix buftiels per acre. No art is 

 required in fowing it, more than making its diftribu- 

 tion as equal as poffible on the fward of grafs. It ope- 

 rates altogether as a top manure, and therefore (hould 

 not be put on in the fpring, until the operation of the 

 froft is over, nor until vegetation hath begun. The 

 general time for fowing it is in April, May, June, July, 

 Auguft, and even as late as September. Its eifeft ivill 

 generally appear in ten or fifteen days ; after which the 

 growth of the grafs will be fo great as to produce a 

 large burden at the end of fix weeks after fowing. It 

 muft be fown on dry land, not fubject to overflow. I 

 have fown it on fand, loam, and clay ; and it is difficult 

 to fay on which it has bell anfwered, although the ef- 

 I'cdt is fooner vifible on the fand. It has been ufed as 

 a manure in this Slate for upwards of twelve years. 

 Its duration may, from the befl information I can col- 

 led, be eftimated from feven to ten years ; for, like 

 other manures, its continuance muft very much depend 

 on the nature of the foil on which it is placed. One of 

 my neighbours fowed a piece of his grafs ground fix 

 years ago — another fowed a field four years ago — a 

 great part of my own farm was fown in May 1788. — 

 We regularly mow two crops,, and pafture in the Au- 

 tumn. No appearance of failure, the prefent crop being 

 full as good as any preceding. I have this fcafon mow- 

 ed about fifty acres of red clover, timothy, white clover, 

 j&c. which were plaftered laft May, July and Septem- 

 ber. Many who faw the grafs, eftimated the produce 

 at two tons per acre ; but I calculate for the two crops 

 {:hree tons. Several ftrips were left in the diffVrent 



