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nefs, were fallowed in 1 765, and thoroughly 

 manured with black rotten dung : Sown 

 with burnet (a bufhel, or 26 lb. per acre) 

 in Augufi : No cattle turned on it ; but it 

 was kept quite clean from weeds, by hand- 

 weeding for forne time, but the chick- 

 weed came up in fuch prodigious luxuriance 

 that it was mown twice and carted away : 

 Some cows got to the dunghill where it 

 was laid, and fed very eagerly on it : Some 

 fattening bullocks did the fame : This was 

 before the whole field was finifhed; Mr. 

 Searancke took the hint, and flopping the 

 weeding, turned in his cattle, and they eat 

 up every fprig. This is a remarkable cir- 

 cumftance, and mould be remembered by 

 thofe whofe lands are fubjecl: to that weed; 

 for the difference is amazingly great be- 

 tween the converting it to dung in one cafe 

 ■ — or to beef and milk in the other. 



1766. 

 May 1 2th mowed it for hay; the crop 

 about 12 loads: As to the application of 

 the hay in the following winter; horfes 

 would not eat it ; it was therefore all cut 

 into chaff, in which ftate they eat it very 

 freely; the price at which it was fold for 

 this life was 32 s. per load. After the 

 mowing it was paftured by horfes ; who 

 fed very heartily on it. And the quantity 

 of food it ) iclded was very conliderable. 



'1767, 



