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167 bufliels of oats, at2 J-. 6</. ^^,10 ij 6 

 '28 bufliels of beans, Oii'^s.Gd. 5 12 o 



£-^(> 



Which is />tT acre, 5/. ^s. 10 d. 



I relate thefe two experiments with pe- 

 culiar fatisfadlion : The practice has been 

 often recommended in books of hufbandry, 

 but I never yet met with a fingle experiment 

 that was fatisfadlory, fo that the real truth 

 of the matter w^as before totally unknown ; 

 — for fo I confider all points of huibandry 

 that are treated in the inftrud:ive mode of 

 writing, unlefs verified by previous ex- 

 periments. 



Draining^ 



In 1766, this very accurate cultivator cut 

 open drains through a car of peat-earth; 

 he then pared and burned it, ploughed it 

 once, and harrowed in oats, the crop was 

 65 bulhels, which fold at 2 j. bd.per builiel; 

 ■with the or.i;3 grafs feeds were fown, and it 

 has been a very good pafture ever fince* 



In 1767, twenty-fix roods of covered 

 drains were cut in a cold, wet, fpringy clay 

 field. The dimenfions, a yard deep, fix 

 inches wide at bottom, and as narrow" 

 at top as would permit a man to dig them ; 

 they were then filled 18 inches deep with 

 ftones picked off the land. The expence, 

 Y 2 Cutting 



