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He then takes them up as they are ufed^ 

 and tinds that they will laft good till Candle^ 

 mas, and alfo grow till then. 



yeriifaie??i artichoaks he has alfo cultivated, 

 and with good fucccis ; he gets about thre» 

 bufhels from a Iquare perch, or 480 bufnels 

 per acre : Has had a peck from one root j 

 and half a peck of potatoes. 



Another very important experiment made 

 by Mr, Crowe was in the article of tillage. 

 He gave a large clay field a two years com- 

 plete fallow, both winter and fummer : He 

 both years timed it v/ell, one and an half 

 chaldron per acre, three chaldrons per acre 

 m the whole. The fecond Michaelmas it was 

 fown with wheat, after twelve ploughings. 

 What may be iuppofed the refult ? Surely a 

 moft capital crop ! — no fuch matter. After 

 the corn w^as finely up, the fpring rains, 

 from the finenefs of the foil, plairtered the 

 whole furface like mortar ; the crop only 

 14 bufhels per acre, and corn bad» 



Upon this experiment, (which is- very 

 curious) I fhould remark, that the warm 

 advocates for tillage ought not to be general 

 in their expreffions ; like Tm//, De Chateau^ 

 vieux, M. du Hamel, and an hundred others, 

 flnce it is evident a thorough pul-verization 

 may on fome lands be pernicious. This- 

 gentleman had never fo poor a crop on 'any 

 fort of land, or with any management, 

 which plainly indicates the true realbn. i 



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