Mr. John Stevens 07i Wheat, Clover and Lucerne, 209 



part of it, lucerne feed was alfo fown, but in what proportion 

 of feed per acre I cannot now afcertain. The crop of barley 

 was a miferable one. It came up very thin, and, as the 

 fpring was v/et, the manure brought forward an ample 

 crop of weeds, with which at harveft the ground appeared to 

 be completely covered : however, towards fall, the clover 

 began to make a pretty good appearance. Although the 

 lucerne has come up better than on No. i, it is too thinly 

 fcattered to promife hope of any thing like a full crop. That 

 part of No. 2, on which the lucerne was fown is more fandy 

 than No. i. 



No. 3. About three acres may be called a fandy foil. In 

 1792 it was partly in corn, and partly in potatoes. In the 

 fpring 1793, it was well manured with ftreet mud, and 

 ploughed, I believe, but once, and fowed with barley about 

 the lafl of April. Twenty-five pounds of lucerne feed was at 

 the fame time fov/n over the whole of it, without any clover 

 feed. The barley turned out very indifferently, though better 

 than No. 2. Although the foil was fandy, it was much 

 infefted with weeds. 



The lucerne, in fomc parts of the piece, came up pretty well, 



though I fhould fuppofe not thick enough for a full crop the 



enfuing feafon. In many parts, it flands very thin, and in 



fome places it has failed altogether, particularly in thofe places 



where the manure had been thrown in heaps out of the cart, 



the weeds had almoll entirely overpowered both barley and 



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