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some of the rougher material we carted off and burned. ( The 

 meadow, during this and subsequent treatment, was handled 

 in four sections of about equal area, divided by the road 

 running through it, and the main ditch cutting the road at 

 right angles. One of these sections was the first season 

 ploughed and planted to cabbage, and gave an excellent crop. 

 Two of the other sections, in the course of the next two 

 years, were also put under the plough, and yielded, with 

 about the usual quantity of manure, excellent crops of man- 

 gold-wurzels and squashes. Potatoes have succeeded well 

 in dry seasons, but in wet seasons are more affected with rot 

 than those grown on common soil. Carrots, when tried in a 

 dry season, are much inclined to grow "prongy." About a 

 quarter of the area, after applying to the surface gravelly 

 loam or sand at the rate of about seventy-one horse-cart loads 

 to the acre, has been planted to onions with excellent success. 

 Heavy crops of hay have been taken from every portion of 

 the meadow, usually two crops each season. In the early 

 handling of this meadow, considerable clay taken from the 

 bottom of the main ditch was spread over the surface. 



