THE RURAL SOCRATES. 



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,, Kliyogg made me attend to a circnmftance which 

 may prove the deflruiflion ®f a meadow if not corrci^ed. 

 This is when the plantane is faiFered to predominate ; 

 whofe large leaves fo totally cover the farface of the 

 ground, that no other herbage can fpring up.^ He 

 pointed to my obfervation a meadow, where the plan- 

 tane was fpread over the foil and reduced it to flcrili- 

 ty. -—The fole remedy for this evil, in his opinion, is to 

 plough up the meadow and fow it with grain for fome 

 years ; and afterwards, in the manner already defcribed, 

 i& may be converted into meadow again. 



Let us now confider Kllyogg's hufbandry in his grain 

 lands ; which, in the diilridl where he lives, it is the 

 general cuftom to feparate into three divifions. Kli- 

 yogg has fifteen acres in each.- — The firfl allotment is 

 for wheat ; his rule is fix loads of manure and thirty 

 bufliels of wheat or fpeit,t (which iall: grain he com- 

 monly prefers) for each acre. The produce is, in ge- 

 neral, more than one hundred (heaves, which, wheti 

 thrcrtied, yield fix facks of winnowed grain .* th^ Tack 

 containing ten bufhels, or two coombs and a half. Thus 

 the clear profit of an acre of land is three maiters,;^ 

 twelve bufliels of grain, and full thirty bottles (or bun- 

 dles) 



*< ably fine crops of oats. At ihe time \hiy were ripe, the trefoil was in 

 <* great luxuriancy below, about two feet in height. The cKaniire ilill re- 

 ** maining in the ground after the firft crops are mowed, and the plotjgh- 

 *♦ ing neceffary for the oats are equally beneficial to the treloH. Kxpe- 

 " rience has convinced hiw, that with only the additional prica of 

 «* feed, a man may have, for feveral fucceffive feafons, a rich meadow oC 

 <• trefoil, which may be mowed in inoft years twice> and in favorable ones 

 ** three and four tioaes.** F. 



* This 13 precifely the cafe in England ; but the narrow leaved plan- 

 tane, called in the north lib grafs, is an excellent pafture. Y. ^ 



+ Spelr, a kind of baftard wheat, which, in a good foil, becomes genu- 

 ine. Y. ^ 



:j: The Zurich malter contains four muids. The muid is divided into 

 four quarters, and when prefled down, weighs about 125 pounds cf ;hc 

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