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 was to inclofe and improve a field everjr 

 year ; and this he accordingly has executed 

 annually for feveral years. The method 

 he takes to improve the black moory 

 land is this. 



He firft pares, burns, and limes it ; and 

 fows it with turnips ; of which he gets a 

 pretty good crop, worth, on an average, 

 about 40 s. an acre : The next year he fows 

 turnips again, and gets a fecond crop equally 

 Valuable with the firft : After this, he lays 

 down to pafture with ray grafs, clover, hay- 

 feeds, &c. C^c. he has tried fome alone, and 

 fome with oats, both do equally well, but 

 the clover much the worft ; the climate he 

 apprehends too cold for it. He often limes 

 for every crop. The oats are frequently five 

 quarters per acre. 



Potatoes he alfo cultivates in this black 

 foil, in rows two feet afunder, and the fets 

 one foot; and of thefe he gets often 100 

 bufhels per acre. 



The grafs turns out very good profitable 

 pafture, keeps milch cows, horfes, fmall 

 fatting beafts, Iheep, &c. very well : Two 

 acres of it will carry a cow through the 

 fummer well : Some of thefe grafs inclofures 

 are five years old, and rather improve than 

 decay ; being better now than at firft after 

 laying. 



Some pieces of this black land which he 

 has inclofed wanted draining; and he has 



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