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1767. 

 Mown the firft week in May ; produce, 

 about nine loads of hay. This hay was 

 eaten in the winter by cows : Six were kept 

 on it the chief part of the winter ; and the 

 butter made from them was excellent. After 

 the mowing the field was paftured by 

 horfes. 



1768. 



May 1 2th, mowed for hay ; but the pro- 

 duct not more than five loads : The fmall- 

 nefs of which quantity induced Mr. Sea- 

 rancke to fow over the burnet, one bufhel 

 per acre of ray-grafs and fix pound of white 

 clover. Both feeds took very well. Since 

 that time the field has not been mown, but 

 every year been fed with horfes and cows : 

 The quantity of food it has in that manner 

 yielded is confiderable : It is, however, 

 found advifable once a year to mow off 

 the bents, and thole fpots in the burnet 

 where a great luxuriancy makes cattle ne- 

 glect it, to encourage the frefh growth, in 

 the winter of 1769, manured it with long 

 dung. 



Prefent State of the Crop. 



This field is now a very good common 

 pafture : Equal to the general run of its 

 neighbours. The herbage is very thick, 



con-. 



