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Winter vetches he cultivates on a large 

 fcale. In Autumn iy68 fix bulliels were 

 fown upon four acres of clover lay. In 1 769 

 reaped from them 114 bufliels, befides a 

 confiderable quantity devoured by the 

 pidgeons. At the lame time fowed ten 

 buihels on feven acres of oat-ftubble, they 

 fucceed well, and from the 25th of March 

 to the 15th of May maintained 60 ev/es 

 with double the number of lamxbs : this 

 gave a noble manuring to the land, which 

 was after that prepared for and planted with 

 cabbages. It is from this experiment 

 evident that winter-vetches anfwer ex- 

 tremely well as fpring-feed for Iheep; from 

 the 25th of March to the 15 th of May is 

 the moft pinching time in the whole year. 



In autumn 1769, 60 acres were fown 

 with thefe vetches, and in March 1770, 

 were as green as a good after-grafs field: 

 and ready to be fed with flieep and lambs. 

 This hufbandry is gaining two crops a year; 

 -vetches fown at Michaehnas and eat off in 

 the fprlng : and cabbages then planted. 



In manuring his fields he is particularly 

 attentive, and fpares no expence to render 

 all his lands, as good as pofTible. Lime, 

 the common manure of the country, 

 he ufes in large quantities ; lays on tvv^o 

 chaldrons per acre at the expence of 

 12 J", per chaldron. Kelp afhes, he pro- 

 cures at all opportunities ; a Ihip load of 



50 tons 



