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the candid, but unmerited notice which 

 an impartial public has taken of my firft 



Eflky with fuch a view, accept the 



following minutes : I hope they will be 

 worthy your attention ; I promife that 

 no care and accuracy Ihall be wanting on 

 my part. 



My former minutes extended from Lon- 

 don^ in the north road almoft to Hatfield ; 

 permit me, therefore, to begin the follow- 

 ing journal in that neighbourhood. 



The firft objects I found worthy of at- 

 tention in hufbandry, were feveral fields 

 of hurnet belonging to Mr. Searancke of 

 Hatfield, for which he obtained a gold 

 medal of the Society for the Encourage- 

 ment of Arts, Manufactures, and Com- 

 merce. 



EXPERIMENT, N° i. 



He began his culture at Bramfeld in the 

 year 1764, on four acres of a poor, cold 

 gravelly loam, on clay and chalk. It was 

 well fallowed and amply dunged. Sown 

 broad-caft in Augufl, twelve pounds of 

 feed per acre, at two (hillings per pound. 

 The conduct of the trial will belt appear 

 from the following minutes which he made 

 of the fuccefs, and which are an extract 



of a letter written on the iubjecl. 



" As it lias been lately much agitated, 



whether 



