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forty acres of turneps fucceeded very well, 

 and proved of amazing ufe to all his cattle ; 

 he mowed the fifty acres of clover, and the 

 produce was twenty loads of hay, and the 

 after-grafs better than before. The next 

 year he took in fifty acres, which were of 

 a fomething better foil than the preceding 

 improvements, at leaft not fo white; he 

 fovved it with buck wheat, as a trial, to fee 

 how that crop would do for the firft, as hi- 

 therto it had paid him better than any 

 other. The thirty-five acres he (owed alfb 

 with buck wheat. The forty, upon which 

 turneps grew, and which were eat upon the 

 land, he lowed with oats and fainfoine, 

 being encouraged by the good appearance of 

 what he fowed laft year. The thirty acred 

 piece he cropped with turneps, fpreading 

 all the manure on it he could raife. 



His fuccefs this year was very great. 

 The fifty acres of buck wheat on the new- 

 land yielded four quarters an acre; a larger 

 produce than he had before received: the 

 thirty-five acres were not fo great a crop. 

 The forty acres of oats, after turneps, pro- 

 duced four quarters an acre; and the young 

 fidnfoine, which had been fown among 



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