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and dries it in fuch a manner, that all hi§ 

 lands are by thefe means ready a fortnight 

 at leaft fooner in the fpring for ploughing ; 

 an eff ed: which is undoubtedly of great con- 

 fequcnce, as it accelerates an early fowing, 

 fo important in all crops. 



8oap afhes he buys, and finds them an 

 excellent improver. 



Buck-wheat he has alfo tried ; fowed one 

 buihel per acre upon two ploughlngs ; it 

 was mowed when in flower the beginning 

 oi AtigiiJ}^ and ploughed in directly: He 

 has both fown wheat upon it, and alfo left 

 if for a winter fallow ; the fuccefs very great. 

 One remark this intelligent gentleman made 

 upon the operation of manures, which is 

 certainly of great truth : That after a farm 

 has been long ufed to a fettled courfe of 

 manuring, variety is of great confequence. 

 Infomuch that he has found uponthofe fields 

 where lime alone had for fome years been 

 ufed, that the introdudlion of a new manure 

 has operated greatly more than its proportion 

 of the Old one would have done : For which 

 reafon it is of confequence to procure as 

 many forts as poffible. 



Mr. Crowe applies his grafs, about half to 

 dairying and half to fatting, and finds that 

 an acre is fufficient by mixing ftock to equal 

 the fummering of a cow. In the making 

 his hay, he ufcs a very cheap and fimple 

 machine, which defcrves imitation, as it 



faves 



