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loam, and excessively poor before liming ; sown with 

 clover seed March 18th, 1793. 



Result, 1794. Improvement no ways inferior, if not 

 superior, (the extreme poverty of the soil considered) 

 to any heretofore. 



N B. 1796. The pasture considerably declined, al- 

 though very good compared to its former state. 



Process. April 8th, 1795. Sowed twelve bushels of 

 plaister upon the young orchard sown uith red clover and 

 timothy seed M rch lUh, 1794; and ploughed, limed 

 and dunged since sowing it with plaister, in April, 1790, 



Result. 1795. The improvement perfectly equal to 

 the first sowing. 



Process, April 8th. Sewed the peach lot with two 

 bushels of plaister, /^n«^ ^Ae ^z'x^A time in seven years^ 

 xmthout any other manure or tillage. 



Result. 1796, Upon mowing first crop appears 

 equally good with any other crop heretofore ; which to- 

 gether with many other experiments, convinces me that 

 a repetition of plaister without an addition of any other 

 manure, will not injure, if it does not improve the crops 

 of grass. 



Process. April 2Sth. Sowed thirteen and an half 

 bushels of plaister upon six acres in the strawberry 



