26 Experiments and Obfervations 



mon hufbandman) muft be principally derived from the means 

 which a larger capital affords him, of fertilizing his ground. 



These means, however, are too often beyond the reach of 

 thofe even, who are willing to purchafe them. Calcarious 

 earths are within every man's reach, and yields fo certain a 

 return from foils to which they are adapted, as to enfure a 

 decided profit upon the capital employed in procuring them. 



It is now three years fmce I have commenced my experiments 

 upon Gypfum. I fliall lay the refult of them before the fociety; 

 tho' they may not appear new to many gentlemen prefent, they 

 may incite others to a farther profecution of this fubjeft, and to 

 a more regular and accurate regifler of their experiments, than 

 can be expefted from one in my fituation, who can only 

 purfue agriculture as an amufement — whi,ch muft, like every 

 other pleafurable relaxation, give way to the duties which my 



ftation requires. 



No. 1. 

 r JULY, 1789.1 After my buckwheat was come up,Idrefred 

 one fourth of an acre, with a bufhel and an half of Gyp/umjow^ 

 iHCT three pounds of clover feed. It appeared to me, that the 

 buckwheat was fomewhat the better for it, but a very heavy 

 rain lodging it when in full bloffom, I could make no accurate 

 experiment — foil, a poor worn out fandy loam. 



[June, 1790. J Clover on this fpot extremely fine; produce at 

 one cutting, one ox-load or half a ton ; the after grafs fed down. 



