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ceeded in luxuriance and flavour those formerly raised 

 in the garden. 



He has used it likewise as a top dressing on a sour 

 meadow, where the herbage was coarse, on which when 

 his cows were before pastured, the butter was rank and 

 indifferent, and I am informed it has not since been so. 

 I can vouch that it is now sweet and rich, but his three 

 cow^s have been fed entirely through the winter on the 

 roots produced on the new ground, and the small patch 

 of clover hay ; the meadow hay being still untouched. 



The ground is at present in a second course of ex- 

 perimental cropping, with different manures for com- 

 parison. I saw some of it digging ; it has become 

 more loose and friable, and to use the expression of 

 the labourer, the stuff has spilt its colour : it has cer- 

 tainly changed in colour, and apparently in quality. 

 The account I have received of its productiveness 

 might by some be questioned, and as I do not attri- 

 bute it entirely to the Barilla, but partly to indefati- 

 gable and persevering manual exertion, directed by 

 skill and judgment, I shall not name it, because on an 

 extended scale, in the common routine of husbandry 

 and under common management, it cannot be ap- 

 proached. If drilled in with the crop, two hundred 

 weight of the Barilla will do ; if sown broadcast, from 

 two to five hundred weight will be required, according 

 to the nature of the soil, and other circumstances, to 

 be judged of by him who uses it. 



On a large field of heavy clay, belonging to a neigh- 

 bouring farmer, which had been summer fallowed for 

 wheat, the gentleman proposed, as an experiment, that 

 a part of it should be dressed with Barilla, in such 



