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too much raised ; for although I cannot with that 

 certainty ascertain the real produce of the land as 

 I can wish, as a considerable quantity of the wheat 

 has been destroyed by vermin, yet still have I had 

 the satisfaction of lodging in my granary as much 

 as I usually have done in the common method of 

 husbandry. The loss I sustained was, indeed, very 

 considerable, from such small animals as mice, for 

 there was not a rat in the barn, and will be a stand- 

 ing memorial to me for thrashing my corn in the 

 proper season. It was computed at one-fourth of 

 the whole crop. But, even deducting the loss, and 

 allowing the increase to be equal to former years, 

 will it not be tight sometimes to alter the usual 

 course, and substitute a preparation equally profit- 

 able as clover for the farmer's grand crop, wheat? 



The land upon which this experiment was made, 

 was light, and produced excellent turnips and bar- 

 ley, but seldom more than a moderate crop of 

 wheat : 20 bushels per acre were as much as might 

 be expected in a good season. 



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, \\;is more than 

 equal to the original price of the buck-wheat. How 

 long the effects of this manure will continue, I can- 

 not possibly 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 cann6t find any manure, 



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