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n be the beft. This acre confifts of twenty- 

 " two ridges, nine of which were, three years 

 " ago, ftrongly drefled with dung; that fide 

 " being lighter than the other, and generally 

 '* failed : fince dreifing, that part has proved 

 " better, but ftill inferior to the undunged 

 " fide. This acre, as well as all my fields, 

 ' was drefled at firft with (hells, and bore four 

 " broad-caft crops, immediately preceding the 

 " drilled crops. 



" I have only, this year, thirty Scots acres 

 "in drilled wheat; the wet feed time laft 

 " year, having prevented my drilling a ten 

 " acre field, now in turnips and potatoes: for 

 " I dare not touch my foil with the plough, 

 " when wet. 



" The field with the fixth crop of drilled 

 *' wheat, and which had five broad cafl crops 

 " previous to thefe, hath at prefent as full a 

 ' crop as can ftand upon it ; except where 

 " the fandy vein comes in. The field with 

 " the fifth crop is inferior to it, though equally 

 ** good foil. In general, where the foil was 

 '* originally tolerable, and exclufive of the 

 " particular acidents 1 have mentioned, I can- 

 " not perceive hitherto any decline in the 

 crops, even thefe that have not received any 

 " dreifing with dung; but how long this will 

 " goon, time only can determine. 



*' 1 always horfe-hoe from tha rows, whe- 

 " ther double or fingle, at one^bout, half a 

 " bout to each fide ; and could return this 



" bout, 



