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50 tons arrived while I was at Kirkkatham: 

 They are 1 8 biilliels to the ton ; and 40 the 

 quantity for an acre; the improvement by 

 them very great. Buck-wheat for plough- 

 ing in, Mr. Turner has tried with much 

 accuracy; he ploughed in nine acres the 

 middle of ^w/k, in three divifions. The 

 firft, a wheat ftubble ; the fccond, a pea 

 ftubble ; and the third, fallow : All three 

 "winter fallowed, and fown the middle of 

 May. It was five times ploughed after the 

 buck-wheat, and laid down with 6 lb. of 

 white clover, and one bufhel meadow fefcue, 



fer acre. The refult was, that the fallow 



part w^as much the beft — the wheat ftubble 

 next — and the pea flubble much the worfl:. 



Dungs of all forts with lime, earth, ^c. 

 ^c. he makes heaps of; and after carefully 

 turning them over, and mixing well to- 

 gether, fpreads the comport on his grafs 

 lands. 



And to this I Oiould add a frefli inOancc 

 of the fpirit with which he profecutes his 

 liufbandry : In the fpring of 1 770 he bought 

 one hundred and fixty-rivc pounds worth of 

 woollen rags at London^ and freighted two 

 ihips with them to Kirklci'tbam. 



Cabbaercs tmd ftraw, are tlic winter food 

 of his cows ; his calves he feeds with new 

 milk for 14 or 20 days, and then fkim 

 milk for three months. His milk cattle arc 

 kept in the houfj all v/inlcr. 



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