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vegetable ; notwithftanding their pofleffing 

 a fine rich clay foil, which realbn tells one, 

 would produce vaft crops of it. This gentle- 

 man has introduced the ufe of it with the 

 fame fpirit he exerts in all his views : He 

 has fow^n it upon large tracts of land, and 

 with great fucccfs. One experiment, in 

 which he was accurate, is highly worthy 

 of infer tion. 



A field, containing 13 acres of clover, 

 and three acres in a border of very bad na- 

 tural grafs, was fown with clover, among 

 the crop of laft year : This year it has 

 liourifhed greatly, and yielded the follow- 

 ing produce. 



From Ladyday to the middle of May^ it 

 kept 80 fheep and fix young cattle. At old 

 Midfumnier it was mown for hay, of which 

 it yielded as much as was w^orth 20 /. at 

 the flack. After this it maintained 100 

 fheep and 20 oxen, two months; 16 cart 

 horfes, three weeks ; two mares and two 

 foals, a fortnight; and 60 Iheep, fix weeks. 

 This may be valued as follows : 

 Hay - - - ^. 20 o o 



Keeping 80 fheep ieven weeks, at 



3 d. per week - - y o o 



fix young cattle, ditto, at 9^. i 1 1 6 



100 fheep, two months, at 



'2^ d. - - - 1000 



. 20 Oxen, ditto, at i/. 6^. 12 00 



Carrv over - - co 1 1 6 



