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diately a profitable crop, and the grafTes 

 increafe by degrees until the land is quite 



matted. -Not however to the exclufion 



of the burnet, for Mr. Searancke thinks 

 there arc to the full as many plants of it 

 as in the firft year ; but the vacancies 

 among them are filled and the general 

 herbage thicker, and more like an old paf- 

 ture. 



EXPERIMENT, N° 2. 



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 Nineteen acres were fown at Bram- 

 jfield in Augnjl 1765 : the foil, a cold, wet, 

 ftrong clay land ; fallowed, but not ma- 

 nured : It was kept through the winter 

 without any cattle going in In April and 

 May 1 766, it fprung very thick, but low ; 

 It was fed by cows through the year. In 

 1767 it was alfo fed in the fame manner, 

 but the crop turning out very poor, owing 

 merely to the wetnefs of the land, Mr. 

 Searancke ploughed it up in 1768, and har- 

 rowed in oats, of which he got a moil ex- 

 cellent crop. 



EXPERIMENT, N° 3. 



1765. 



Ten acres of land at Hatfield^ the foil an 

 upland poor gravel, and inclinable to wet- 

 IB 4 nefs, 



