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laft year, but the buck wheat yielded three 

 quarters and a half an acre, befides a toler- 

 able produce of ftraw. Thefe feventy acres 

 fupported his cattle fo well, that they im- 

 proved much : but, as his views were prin- 

 cipally carried towards cattle, from the ex- 

 tent of his farm, being able to keep great 

 numbers in fummer, he wanted hay, and 

 green winter food, which induced him to 

 low the new inclofure he made the third 

 year, of thirty acres, with turneps, on one 

 ploughing ; the twenty acred piece he 

 fowed with buck wheat, being encouraged 

 by his former good fuccefs - y and the fifty 

 acres with a fecond crop of buck wheat, 

 and clover feeds mixed with it, in the me- 

 thod ufed in Burgundy. The turneps did 

 not fail, but were a poor crop ; however, 

 they were of great fervice to his fheep, his 

 fvvine, and his cows, all of whom were 

 turned into the field for two hours in the 

 jnkkile of the day, by way of baiting them, 

 and fed the crop on the ground. The 

 twenty acres of buck wheat yielded as good 

 a crop as before ; but the fifty, not much 

 more than half as much per acre. This 

 year he bought ten more cows, and from. 



