28 On Planter of Paris. 



the next spring, and then mowed two good crops a 

 year for two years ; then ploughed the clover down, 

 after the last mowing the second year, and sowed it 

 with wheat on one ploughing, which now is a good 

 crop standing on the ground. I may here remark, that I 

 have not apprehended the plaister to be of any beiiefit 

 to a crop of w^heat, when first sowed, upon it ; but after 

 having been in with clover, it }s in a very fine state for a 

 crop of wheat and seldom fails producing a good one, 

 if not left to lay so long as other grass, to get too strong 

 for the wheat. 



Another experiment I made in part of the field last 

 mentioned, on about eight acres that was extremely im- 

 poverished, and thrown out of cultivation for a number 

 of years. It lay very high and dry. I ploughed it in the 

 fall of the year 1791, and let it lay until the next season, 

 when I ploughed it again and sowed it with buckwheat, 

 which was a light crop, notwithstanding a favourable 

 season, uDt yielding above seven or eight bushels per 

 acre. The next spring I sowed it with oats and clover 

 seed, and then had five bushels of plaister sowed over 

 the whole piece ; the crop of oats better than I expected 

 and the clover grew so that it came out in bloom that 

 season. The t\^o next seasons I sowed it with plaister, 

 the first with but three bushels on the whole where it 

 appeared to be the weakest, the second year with one 

 bushel per acre, and mowed the clover both years two 

 crops which were good, and the clover appearing to 

 stand well. I have sowed it again with one bushel per 

 acre, which now promises me another good crop I have 

 :put no other manure whatever upon it, and it is now 



