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run through both ways so as to cut it in junks about five inches 

 deep. I have then turned it over, rolled it down, added sandy- 

 loam and compost, and sowed it down with oats and grass seed. 

 This I did two years ago last spring, and had the best crop of 

 oats I ever raiSed. and I have had since as large crops of grass 

 on this as on any other land. I have ploughed four or five 

 acres of the land since I fixed it, and have raised the first year 

 large crops of potatoes, and then laid it down the next spring 

 with oats, wheat, and grass seed. In every instance I have not 

 failed of having a large crop. 



You ask me how often it requires top-dressing. Answer. 

 About once in two or three years. 1 always put on the dress- 

 ing in the fall if convenient. I spread it, then harrow it well, 

 and roll it down. 



You ask me if I have measured any of my meadow and 

 weighed the hay. Answer. I caused a small square piece be- 

 tween two ditches to be measured. It contained 84 rods. The 

 grass was well dried in two days of as good hay weather as we 

 had last year, and weighed 38 hundred and 5 lbs. I cut a good 

 second crop on the same which I did not weigh. 



I have never kept any particular account of what it costs me 

 to redeem my meadow. But I am sure the two first crops 

 have amply repaid all expense for the whole labor. 

 : In ditching my meadow of late, I have left no raised banks, 

 but have levelled it back, so as to have grass to the very edge 

 of the bank, and to prevent the banks from caving in." 



G. My next account is from Amos Bancroft, M. D., atGroton, 

 whose method will be found to be in some respects different 

 from that pursued by others. The appearance of his mowing 

 fields and the amount of his potatoe crops certainly speak well 

 for his husbandry. 



" I will give you a concise account of my method of reclaim- 

 ing the peat meadows. I have tried ploughing, paring, and 

 planting with potatoes. I think ploughing in the beginning 

 does not answer. I first drain the ground by ditching, if it re- 

 quires it. Then I bog and cut off" the hassocks, stack lliem 



