302 THE BEE, OR Feb. 23,' 



for lancl. Perhaps it might have been in the year 177 r, 

 that it was recommended to me as a manure for land : 

 2 accordingly purchafed five bufliels ; yet m ; faith there- 

 irt was fo weak, that it lay by me until 1778, when, 

 in the month of March, I fowed a^ the rate of two buflieJs 

 an^a half per acre, on Tome ground which I had tilled and 

 fowed with clover feed, the fpring preceding, leaving a 

 piece in the middle not fown, and likewife on each fide. 

 That feafon, where there was no plafter fown, the clo- 

 ver flood on the ground about twelve inches high ; but 

 where the plailer was fown, the clover flood, upon an 

 average, thirty-four inches high. This ground I mowed 

 for about four feafons after; I found it to have lefs 

 grafs every year, though that which was fown with the 

 plafler had as much more in proportion as the firfl year. 

 I afterwards ploughed up all this ground, except a 

 quarter of an acre ; upon this I again put plafter of Pa- 

 ris, in the year 1785, and no other manure whatever 

 fince 1778; and it is now in much better order than 

 it was at that time, and it has produced me about two 

 tons of hay every year fince, for the firft crop, and a 

 tolerable good fecond crop, and fometimes a third crop, 

 or very good pafture ; thougli the laft time I manured 

 it, I put in the proportion of fix bufhels of plafter to 

 an acre. I have likewife made many experiments other- 

 wife ; I have tried il with Indian corn, where it does 

 tolerably well •■, with buck-wheat, and it makes it grow 

 fo rapidly, that it has always fallen down, and I have 

 I0I m.y crop. I have tried it with wheat; and it is not 

 poflible to dilcover that it makes any difference when 

 I'own on the crop; but when it is fown on grafs ground, 

 and this ground turned up and laid down iu wheat, it 

 ib amazing the advantage it is of to the crop. Laft fall 

 ■was a year, I put down about eight acres of wheat, 

 xvhich I harrowed in, and then fowed clover feed, which 

 canne up, and looked very fine in the fall ; but the v/in- 

 ter being very fevere, with but little fnovv, the clover 

 was dead in the fpring ; when 1 fowed it again with 



