io TRAVELS THROUGH 

 fure every year, till he had gone through 

 the whole. This he did, by digging on the 

 fpot for a ftiff loamy earth, approaching to 

 clay, which he fpread in large quantities on 

 the furface, and then ploughed and fowed 

 it with buck wheat, getting fine crops, of 

 from three quarters to four and a half, 

 which nearly paid all the expences of the 

 manuring. After the buck wheat, his me- 

 thod was to fow rye upon one ploughing ; 

 and of this he got two quarters an acre ; 

 then he ploughed thrice, and took a crop 

 of barley ; the product about equal to that 

 of the rye. After the barley, he fowed 

 turneps, which he ufed for feeding his 

 icows, oxen, fwine, and fheep. M. Roche 

 could not inform me of his culture of this 

 root ; but his fuccefs with it was reckoned 

 very great, as it enabled him much to in- 

 creafe his ftock of cattle. The turneps he 

 followed with another crop of barley $ and 

 this has been the general merhod he has 

 purfued throughout the improvement. The 

 parts of it which were firfl manured begin 

 to wear out, and the peafant expects they 

 will foon want a frefh fupply of manure, 

 as before j a circumftance probably owing 



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