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a. rock beneath; the land^was in good tilth, 

 and manured with pigeons dung, 32 bufhels 

 to the acre. The crops both of buck wheat 

 and barley were moderate, but the fucceeding 

 crop of grafs was at the rate of a tun to an 

 acre, and has continued ever fmce to yield 

 nearly the fame produce. The part drilled 

 with fainfoin along with the buckwheat, was 

 apparently fuperior to the reft the firft year, 

 but hnce that, there is fcarce any difference. 

 I can no otherwife account for the fuperiority 

 of the laft over the fainfoin of the firft ex- 

 periment, but from the dift'erence of foil, 

 which in the laft inftance was much thinner, 

 and not fo productive of twitch grafs and 

 weeds. 



In the fame month five acres of land 

 adjoining, were fown by hand with white 

 and red clover along with barley, and two 

 acres more alfo fown with trefoil and barley : 

 of the clovers a ftone to an acre was the 

 quantity ufed ; the barley was drilled, and 

 produced near three quarters to an acre; the 

 foil was like that before mentioned, and 

 was tilled in like manner, but being 

 but flightly folded over, the land wanted 

 heart to produce a vigorous growth ; the 

 clovers were very thick on the ground, but 

 fo low as to be fcarcely worth mowing, 

 though indeed a dry fummer might partly 

 be the caufe of this difappointment. This 

 land has been fince ploughed up, and 

 P 3 Rocque^s, 



