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eight bumels of finely drefTed hay -feeds are 

 {own. At harveft the oats are reaped, and 

 6 lb. more of clover-feed fown over the 

 flubblc, which is then mown, and raked 

 off, and confequently the feed pretty well 

 buried in the ground ; a very rich compoft 

 is immediately fpread on the field, and 

 well harrowed in, by which means the 

 feed is completely covered; in this manner 

 it is left the firft winter. The crop is next 

 year left until the feeds are ripe enough to 

 {hake in the mowing, and making, by 

 which means the land gains a frefh {prink- 

 ling, and the whole furface enfured a total 

 and thick covering. 



The fuccels attending this method is fo 

 very great, that in feveral large fields I 

 viewed, the after-grafs was 8 and 9 inches 

 high, foon after clearing a crop of hay of 

 two tons per acre, and this the firft year of 

 the lay. No one would have known from 

 walking over the field that it was not of 

 fome vears growth, fo thick and matted 

 on the ground was the firft year's produce. 

 This grafs, in any part of the kingdom, 

 would have let for ^o s. an acre, and for 

 40 .f. in molt : -\n improvement you will 

 think of a noble kind, vxhen you are told 

 that the rents before this management w r ere 

 no more than 8 and q s. and let at their 

 v ■; iuc\ Adjoining feveral of thefe new lays, 



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