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be put in calabafhes, than by any other 

 means. Some people fcrape the outfide of 

 the calabafhes before they are opened, dry 

 them afterwards and then clean them with- 

 in ; this makes them as hard as bones : 

 they are fometimes warned, fo that they al- 

 ways keep their white colour. 



Most of the farmers in this country, 

 fow Buck-wheat, in the middle of July ; 

 it muft not be fown later, for in that cafe 

 the froft ruins it, but if it be fown before 

 July, it flowers all the fummer long, but 

 the flowers drop, and no feed is generated. 

 Some people, plough the ground twice 

 where they intend to fow buck-wheat ; 

 others plough it only once, about two 

 weeks before they fow it. As foon as it 

 is fown the field is harrowed. It has been 

 found by experience, that in a wet year 

 buck-wheat is molt likely to fucceed : it 

 ftands on the fields till the frofl comes on. 

 When the crop is favourable, they get 

 twenty, thirty and even forty bufhels from 

 one. The Swedijlj churchwarden Ragm'l- 

 Jbn, in whofe houfe we were at this time, 

 had got fuch a crop : they make buck- 

 wheat cakes and pudding. The cakes are 

 commonly made in the morning, and are 

 baked in a frying pan, or on a (tone : are 

 buttered and then eaten with tea or coffee, 



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