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acre. Having fo much flraw for his cattle, 

 he, this year, executed a very good work, 

 which was to cut about twenty acres of 

 his large wood, which he carted home for 

 firing, and then fowed all the vacant parts 

 cf it with the moil of fuch forts as feemed 

 beft to agree with the foil : after which he 

 fenced in the piece thus done, to prevent 

 his cattle any more from getting into it; 

 and his fuccefs was fo great, that ever fince 

 he has done a fmall piece in the fame man- 

 ner every year. 



His next year's undertaking was to form 

 a new inclofure of 3^ acres, which he 

 fowed as before with oats; the forty acres 

 were tolerably dunged and folded, and fown 

 with turneps ; the thirty acres were fown 

 with barley ; the twenty with buck wheat 

 and fainfoine -, the fifty were continued un- 

 der clover, having been lightly manured in 

 the winter, with a reddim loam. This was 

 a great work for our farmer : but he exe- 

 cuted it with fpirit, being very defirous of 

 getting fome tolerable grafs land. All his 

 oats were a good crop -, his barley did not 

 yield more than a quarter and a half j his 

 buck wheat three quarters an acre : the 



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