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EXPERIMENTS MADE BY MANURING LAND WITH 

 S E A - W E E D, 



TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM CREEKS, 



AND WITH 



SHELLS: 

 Er EZRA L' HOMMEDIEU, £S^, 



THE year before lafl I fenced about ten acres of poor land 

 of a light dry foil, and which produced little except Jive-fingers 

 and ground pine ; it was ploughed up and planted with corn, 

 which was dunged in the holes, but the land was fo poor that 

 the crop did not pay the expence of culture. Lafl year I 

 contradted for one hundred tons of fea-weed, at fourteen pence 

 per ton, and let out five acres of this piece of ground for raifing 

 wheat. I was to find the manure, twenty ox-cart loads to the 

 acre, which was to be carted and all other expences borne in 

 raifing the crop, and I was to have the one half of the wheat 

 dehvered in the flieaf in the field : Early in March the five 

 acres was fowed with clover feed ; at harveft the wheat much 

 exceeded my expectation ; that which was befl put in, by 

 computing the fliocks, w^ould yield fixteen bufhels per acre — 

 the clover came up very well and after harvefl headed, and the 

 heads being collected by women and children among the flubble. 



