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bloflbm, and winter fallowed after, and in 

 the fpring fown with grafles alone; five acres 

 adjoining were fown alfo among barley, 

 and another five, without either corn or 

 manure: The refult of this experiment, 

 which was very well imagined, was this, 

 that, from the firft year to the prefent 

 time, no kind of difference has been per- 

 ceived. That, however, which was fown 

 alone, would, without attention, have 

 proved the worft; for the chick-weed 

 came fo ftrongly, that it threatened to de- 

 ftroy all the graffes j but a dairy of cows 

 being turned in, they eat it up, by which 

 means the graffes rofe freely. As that 

 part fown alone, in this experiment, was 

 no better than the other, it is certainly 

 fo far conclufive againft fowing alone, as a 

 crop of corn is thereby loft, without gain- 

 ing any thing in return. 



Cabbages this Gentleman has alfo tried, 

 and with great fuccefs. In 1766 he had 

 an acre and half on a cold, wet, clay foil : 

 It was well dunged, and ploughed twice : 

 Turncps the preceding crop. The cab- 

 bage feed was fown the beginning of An- 

 guji the year before, and the plants fet 

 out of the bed diredtly into the field, which 

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