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EXPERIMENTS 



On wheat, clover and LUCERNE, 



SUBMITTED TO THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING AGRICULTURE 

 AND USEFUL ARTS : 



BY JOHN STEVENS, oj Hoboken, 



THE cultivation and management of a field of about ten 

 acres : 



No. I. About three and a half acres, part of the above, Is 



a- loamy foil, which having a N. W. expofure, is rather 



inclined to be wet and cold in the fpring. In the month of 



May of 1792, planted it with Indian corn, manured in the 



ordinary way, with farm-yard dung in the hills. The crop 



was a good one. The latter end of October, cut it up 



clofe to the ground, and carried it off. Then gave the 



whole a good dreffing — part with farm-yard dung — part with 



heated allies, and part with ftreet dirt ; gave it one ploughing, 



and harrowed in three and a half bufhels of wheat. In the 



month of March following, fowed the whole with thirty 



•pounds of red clover j and on an acre of the driefl part 



inclining to fand, fowed at the fame time about 8 pounds of 



lucerne feed. The wheat turned out a much better crop than 



I had expefted from its appearance in the fall ; for it jvas 



manifeft to the eye, that it had not been fufficiently feeded. 



My overfeer has rendered me an account of eighty one bufhels 



