362 BUCK-WHEAT AFTER TARES. 



The land upon which this experiment was made, 

 was light, and produced excellent turnips and 

 barley, but seldom more than a moderate crop 

 of wheat : 2O bushels per acre were as much as 

 might be expected in a go >;i. 



But although I cannot speak with precision in 

 regard to the wheat crop, yet I can thus far affirm, 

 that the additional profit from the rye, as spring 

 feed., which succeeded the wheat, was more than 

 equal to the original price of the buck-wheat. 

 How long the effects of this manure will continue, 

 I cannot possihly say, but, from the luxuriance of 

 the rye, should not have made the least doubt of its 

 operative qualities to the ripening that crop. The 

 expence is trifling, for you cannot find any manure 

 even for a single crop, equal in all respecls to this 

 for five shillings, which is, in general, the price of 

 two hushels, and is sufficient for one acre. 



But a material advantage there certainly is from 

 two vegetable crops, the one immediately suc- 

 ceeding the other, in cleaning the land, for although 

 the rye was sown as soon as I could conveniently 

 plough after the haulm was carried off, yet, upon 

 breaking up the land after the rye was fed off, it 

 was much cleaner than it was after the last fallows 



I wish I could have drawn a more accurate con- 

 dition from this experiment, as I find that it is the 

 first that lias been made in this manner ; and would 

 not have troubled you with this, had it not been 

 ur particular desire, it being impossible to as- 

 certain precisely the loss I sustained, consequently 



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