tSO THE RURAL SOCRATES. 



his prejudices with re/ped to this gypjmi, Thcfc prcja- 

 dices arofe from an auempt which he had made in the 

 year 1774 ; w'len, after fowing a field with clover and 

 then ftjewing it withgypfum, a drought of four weeks 

 fucceedcd, and the crop entirely failed. His difguft 

 was fuch, that he came running to town to reproach 

 our author for having fulFered himftlf to be mifled by 

 books, when he h «d recommended fo worthlefs a thing 

 to him. Dr. Hirzel appeafed him by repicienting, that 

 a man like him, ought not to have negleded to remark 

 the drynefs of the (eafon, which had injured his other 

 meadows and fields ; that he ought not to be difcourag- 

 cd by the failure of a firfl: attempt, but ihould rather 

 take the hint to fpread his gypfiim during or after rain ; 

 and that he ought: not to plough the field immediately, 

 as he propofed, on account of what had happened, but 

 fhould wait for a more favorable feafon. Kliyogg had 

 no reafon to repent the having followed this advice ; as 

 his clover lucceeded lb well, that he came the next 

 ipring to confefs his obligations for it. 



p. 211. Near this field of clover was the Langwiefc, 

 a meadow, which Kliyogg had found quire neglet^ed ; 

 but which improved from day to day by a mixture 

 of water and mud, which he contrived to conducTl: 

 there. 



p. 212. From hence Kliyogg led the author to a field 

 containing about an acre ; of which the foil \vas a dry 

 gravel, covered with a very (lender coat of black mould. 

 Here alfo he fowed clover with fbccefs. 



p. 21 g — 218. A little higher up were about £fty 

 acres of grain. — It was eafy at a diftance to remark a 

 difference of goodnels in the crop. The upper and lower 

 parts formed a green carpet 5 but the middle was yellow 

 throughout. — The lower part, confiding of 8 acres had 

 been manured ; and bore the beft of wheal. Of the 

 42 remaining acres, 25 had been dreffed only with 

 mjirle ; and yet in nothing fell fhort of the former. 

 Kliyogg, the winter before he lowed thclafl mentioned 



acres. 



