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the heads, which greatly lessened my quantity of 

 seed, as well as retarded the growth of the plants. 

 I turned ewes, lambs, and calves into the field, and 

 they all fed very greedily upon the burnet. From 

 what I had heard of Mr. Rocque, I very much ex- 

 pected them to scour ; but there was not the least 

 appearance of it, and the cattle throve accordingly. 



The 6th of July I began to mow, the weather 

 being favourable : six men and four boys thrashed 

 and cleared the seed in seven days. I had 20O 

 bushels of very fine clean seed, as fnany sacks of 

 chaff, and seven loads of hay, from a field of seven ' 

 acres and a quarter. 



Satisfied that 200 bushels of seed would be 

 more than I should be able to dispose of, I was not 

 anxious after another crop, being rather desirous of 

 seeing what it would perform as a pasture. Ac- 

 cordingly, in about 10 or 12 days after the field 

 was cleared, I turned seven cows, two calves, and 

 two horses into it; they all throve very remarkably, 

 and the cows gave more, and we thought a richer 

 milk, than in any other pasture : I really expected, 

 as burnet is so strong an aromatic, that the milk 

 would have had a particular taste; but far other- 

 wise, the milk, cream, and butter were as fine, if 

 not finer tasted, than any from the best meadows. 

 I am satisfied, that there is no better pasture for 

 cows, whether fnilched or barren, than burnet. 

 The weather was now extremely droughty, all our 

 pastures were burnt up, yet the burnet flourished 

 and grew away as if it had a shower every week. 



My 



