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made the butter abfolutely ilink ; but he 

 apprehends it owing to the decayed leaves 

 not being taken off. 



The next year he ha(i another acre ma- 

 naged in all rcfped's as before, except the 

 manure, which was lime and dung mixed. 

 The crop a very poor one, not above i lb, 

 apiece upon an average. They were fed 

 off with flieep. 



In 1766, he cultivated the turnip cab-» 

 bage ; he fowed them in the fpring, and 

 planted cut about 1500 plants in a rood 

 of limeffone land ; the end of May^ 

 they were well horfe and hand-hoed, and 

 weighed about 5 lb. each on an average ; 

 they were given to fheep the middle o^Aprily 

 and found to be exceedingly fond of them. 



This gentleman has likewife cultivated 

 the artificial graffes w^ith attention. In 1 764, 

 he fowed 12 acres of fainfoine upon his 

 iliallow limeftone land, it was fown alone 

 after turnips, and, when up, carefully weed- 

 ed. It has lafled ever fmce, mowed every 

 year once, and has produced as much hay 

 conilantly, on every acre, as any three of 

 natural grafs in the neighbourhood. He 

 gives it to horfes. In 1767, he took feme 

 cow^s from natural grafs hay to that of fain- 

 foine, but they did not milk fo well. 



Another acre he fowed upon the fam.e 

 land, but it comJng up thin, he fow^d, the 

 year after, half a bufhel of ray-grafs over 



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