2o8 Mr. John Skums on Wheaty Clover and Lucirne, 



of clean wheat; but as the crop had after harveft been put up 

 in a barrack where great depredation had been made on it by 

 poultry, hogs, &c. and confiderable wade accrued from 

 threlhing on an open temporary floor, I fhould fuppofe the 

 produd might be fairly eflimated at one hundred bulhels, 

 which is at the rate of about twenty eight and a half bufhels 

 per acre. Although the feafon was remarkably dry, the 

 clover came on after harvefl, at an aftoniihing rate, and as I 

 was under the neceffity of keeping up the field, it was not 

 paftured as ufual. In the beginning of October, the clover 

 was cut, and notwithftanding the ftubble prevented it being 

 clofe, the produtl was as nearly as I could eftimate at lead 

 four tons. One four ox load was taken into the barn ; the 

 remainder was taken immediately from the field to the boat, 

 and delivered from thence into my flable in New- York. I 

 have kept a pair of horf^s and a cow on it fmce the beginning 

 ' of January, and exped it will laft me till April. 



As to the part fown with the lucerne feed : On the far greater 

 part of it the feed failed altogether, and the few folitary plants 

 that here and there made their appearance were evidently 

 Hunted and overpowered by the clover. 



No. 2. About three acres were fown in the fpring 1792, 

 with oats, and produced a tolerable good crop. In the 

 fpring 1793 it was manured with flreet mud, and ploughed, 

 J believe but once, and jTown with barley and clover ; over ?\ 



