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12 boat loads of the blue fand, which is taken 

 from the banks of the river at low water, each 

 boat load containing 20 tons. Then ploughed 

 and harrowed it once j and fuch of the clods 

 as were not thoroughly burnt and pulverized 

 after harrowing, he turned with the grafly fide 

 down to hinder their growing. About the 

 middle of Auguft he fowed with rape ; a lit- 

 tle more than half a bufhel to an acre. It was 

 cut the latter end of June, 1775, and produc- 

 ed 48 barrels, of fixteen ftones to the barrel, 

 which fold for 1 6s. per barrel, and the ft raw to 

 a tallow-chandler to burn for afhes, for 485. 

 The ftraw, or haulm of rape, is fold for 

 twelve-pence for each barrel of feed it pro- 

 duced. The beginning of July, 1775, Mr. 

 Wyfe ploughed and harrowed the ground; 

 about the aoth of July fowed it with turnips, 

 which on their coming up, were immediate- 

 ly deftroyed by the fly. About the middle of 

 Auguft harrowed the ground, and fowed tur- 

 nips again, which were alib deftroyed by the 

 fly. Mr. Wyfe imagines the great number of 

 flies were occafioned by the oilinefs and rich- 

 nefs of the ground, (caufed by the putrefacti- 

 on of the leaves and bloflbms of the rape) and 

 the moifture and warmth of the weather. 

 About the middle of Oftober, the grafs came 

 up fo rich and luxuriant, (though not fown 

 with grafs feed) that Mr. Wyfe would not 

 fufFer it to be ploughed for tillage, as he had 

 intended. The latter end of June, 1776, 

 mowed it, and it produced three tons of hay 

 per acre -, fold for 345. per ton. The fand 



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