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With the firft crop of fpring corn the 

 Jand is laid down to grafs. The fpecies 

 fown are burnet, red-honey fuckle, white 

 clover ^.Ib, rib grais t>lb. ray grafs half a 

 bufhel. He has tried both with, and with- 

 out corn ; but little difference in the grafs. 

 I viewed a field, part of it laid down in 

 this manner, and part of it with dwarf 

 poa, gathered by hand; but there was no 

 comparifon between them, the former better 

 fix to one. 



In thefe methods of improvement, the 

 grafs becomes w^orth i o j". per acre the firft 

 year ; and there is no doubt but the value 

 will annually improve. 



This inftance of the cultivation of a wafte 

 tra6t reputed barren, is fatisfadlory, and 

 does great honour to the gentleman who 

 has undertaken it. Such fpirited attempts 

 cannot be commended in terms adequate to 

 •their merit ; So many millions of acres of 

 moors as remain wafte, and of no value in 

 a trading and manufacturing country, fo 

 rich and populous as this, and in a period 

 that abounds fo much with complaints of 

 the dearnefs of provifions, ought to becon- 



fidered as fo many nuifances : ■ — their 



exillence is a continual diihonour to all their 

 poiTefTors. . What praife is therefore me- 

 rited by the noble Few, who have the fpirit 

 \Q ad: in a different manner, 



Jjcaving 



