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leaned a little — Return not lefs on an average than thirty-five 

 bufhels per acre. The whole of the ground on which the 

 aforefaid experiments were made, was level land, clear 

 of ftone and foil, a loam mixed with fand, except about one 

 acre of the lad mentioned piece, of which the one-half was 

 a clay foil, mixed with fmall round ftones : the other part a 

 gravelly knoll. The whole of my calculations in bufhels of 

 wheat, were made from the number of fheaves that they 

 contained, and what they would produce, except the fifty-three* 

 bufliels and thirteen quarts mentioned. 



April 1793, broke up about nine acres of ground for corn, 

 of a fandy loam : five of them had about forty-five loads per 

 acre ftrewed over the ground of barn manure. About the 

 20th of May crofs-ploughed the whole. The 28th, planted 

 it with corn — ^put about one pint of marl (that had been 

 cxpofed to the froft two winters.) On each hill over that part 

 of the ground which had not been manured, except over 

 one acre of the manured — I put fomething lefs on each hill ; 

 the whole of the corn very fine. That acre prepared v/ith 

 the barn manure and marl, was equal to any that I ever 

 faw grow in that part of the country. From the experiments 

 and obfervations made, I perceive that the (hell marl ads upon 

 vegetables fomething like alhes ; and that about thfe fame 

 quantity will anfwer the purpofe for corn. It ought to be 

 thrown up and expofed to the froft at lead one winter feafon, 

 then it will pulverize, and have the fame appearance as aihes. 



