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them, made a very good appearance. The 

 thirty acres of turneps were indifferent, but- 

 better than fome crops he had had of that 

 root. The twenty acres of fainfoine fuc- 

 ceeded as well as he could wim ; it yielded 

 fifteen loads of hay, and a plentiful after- 

 grafs. The fifty acres firft broke up under 

 clover was fo poor a pafture, that he de- 

 termined to keep it no longer under the 

 grafs. 



The next year he enlarged his under- 

 taking. His new inclofure amounted to fixty 

 acres, which he fowed with buck wheat, in 

 confequence of his good fuccefs laft year : 

 the laft broken up fifty acres lie fowed with 

 rye ; the thirty-five with turneps, well 

 dunged ; the forty were under fainfoine of 

 lafl year ; alfo the twenty of that of the year 

 before : the thirty he fowed with rye ; and 

 the fifty firft broken up were cropped with 

 buck wheat. 



The buck wheat, in the new inclofure> 

 failed ; but for what reafon he could not 

 tell : the other was a good crop ; his rye 

 like wife yielded w r ellj the turneps were the 

 beft crop he had yet had. But what gave 

 him much the greateft fatisfa&ion, was the 



fuccefs 



