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Jng late is feldom any other than the Ian4 

 being cropped with ibmething elfe till that 

 time ; and this circumftance they efteem a 

 very valuable one, as by that means they 

 are fometimes able to get two crops in a 

 year upon the fame land. The panicles are 

 gathered much in the fame manner as with 

 maiz, and carried home for drying, like 

 that crop, after which it is thremed. One 

 circumftance of difficulty is the drying of 

 it > if not dried to an extraordinary degree, 

 it will not keep at all. It is reckoned a 

 great irnpoveriiher of the earth. 



Watering meadows, and all low trads 

 that are able, is much practifed ; and they 

 find that the utmoft expence of manuring 

 js not equal to watering, when it is pradtifed 

 with tolerable judgment. They are of courfe 

 extremely anxious to water as much land as 

 they potlibly can ; they have no crops 

 fcarcely but what are improved by it, if 

 there is time for their drying fufficicntly be- 

 fore ploughing. 



Lucern is highly valued, and with great 

 reafon; for they reckon that an acre mown, 

 and given green to cattle in (tables, will fup- 

 port five oxen through the Summer, which 



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