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and fown alfo with oats three bufhels to the 

 acre; this was adjoining a two acre piece 

 of hicerne, which had flood two years ; 

 the plants were in rows, viz. two rows 

 a foot diftant, on five foot ridges. This 

 piece had been conftantly horfe and hand 

 hoed, had borne three good crops each year; 

 the feveral cuttings appUed to the feeding 

 of horfes in the ftable, and the half acre 

 fown broadcaft, was to Ihow the difference : 

 after the oats were reaped, the lucerne pro- 

 duced a pretty good after-grafs, and the 

 fucceedi ng years a good crop, viz. a ton 

 and a half per acre, befides a good after- 

 math. The harrowing was not omitted, 

 but the drilled and hoed crops were certainly 

 more vigorous, the flioots ftronger and 

 taller, and the three cuttings certainly 

 yielded more fodd(^r. 



In May 1 765, 17 acres on the high wolds 

 %vere drilled, partly wath barley and fainfoin, . 

 and partly with Hiinfoin alone ; the rows 

 one foot where the corn grew, and fix inches 

 where there was no corn ; the former took 

 two bufhels per acre, the latter three ; the 

 land in good tilth, and had been folded ; 

 But as I imagined the feed was too thinly 

 ibwed (having found, by an experiment of 

 100 feeds on a garden bed, that not above 

 lialf grew) I ordered thefc 1 7 acres to be 

 fown broadcaft with white clover and trefoil, 

 VIZ. 1 8 lb. to an acre ; the tilling which 



was 



