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feafon was kindly, the corn proved good, 

 and after it was removed, the fainfoin ap- 

 peared diftindly and vigoroufly in the 

 rows, which were v/ell flocked with plants ; 

 the appearance was altogether promifing. 

 Notwithllanding which, in the following 

 winter many plants dwindled away, and 

 the firft crop was but a poor one, viz. about 

 half a tun to an acre ; the fucceeding ones 

 were not much better, and the natural grafs 

 has now got fuch an afcendancy, that it has 

 begun to be ploughed up in order to be 

 pulverized by a crop or two of corn, amelio- 

 rated by a crop of turnips, anti afterwards 

 laid down with fome other grafs better 

 adapted to the nature of the foil. The in- 

 different fuccefs here I take to be owing to- 

 the fournefs in the land ; which moreover 

 greatly encouraged the growth of the 

 natural grafs, which choaked the fainfoin at 

 an early period, when it had not acquired 

 vigour to contend with its enemy : Some of 

 the clovers are intended to be fown next,, 

 and in fuch land I apprehend, grafs feeds- 

 Ihould be fown very thick. 



In the beginning of il^^j/ 1764, about fix 

 acres were drilled with buckwheat and fain- 

 foin, and with barley and fainfoin in alternate 

 rows, a foot diflant ; the quantity of fain- 

 foin feed was two buihels to an acre ; the 

 land was in fituation nearly the fame as the 

 laft experiment, but a fhallower foil with 



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