68 On Flaister of Paris. 



1796. Upon mowing the first crop, the clover nearly 

 run out ; good crop of timothy. 



Process, April 2d, Sowed seven bushels of plaister 

 upon the lot before the door, sown before with plaister 

 the 13th of April, 1791. 



Result, 1793. Equally improved with the first sowing. 

 1796. Clover almost over run with blue grass. 



Process, April Sth. Sowed twenty-eight bushels of 

 plaister upon the upper field ; quantity fourteen acres 

 sown with red clover seed the i9th of March, 1792 j. 

 in tillage eighty years ; limed in the fall of 1790 ; and 

 in parts lightly manured with dung ; soil a light isin- 

 glass loam, with a small part mixed with gritty and 

 flinty gravel. 



Result. 1793. Perfectly equal, if not superiorly im- 

 proved with any heretofore ; no perceptible diff'erencc 

 between any of the differeiit qualitied soils. 



1796. N. B. This field was so remarkably unfavour- 

 able to pasture, that it would not have subsisted fourteen 

 sheep reputably through the season, although it is now 

 one of the best of my pasture fields. 



Process, April 1th, 1794. Sowed twenty-five bushels 

 of plaister upon fifteen acres in the sand field; in tillage 

 at least fifty years; limed in the falls of 1789 and 1792, at 

 about forty bushels per acre each time ; the soil a light 



