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black apple, although no rape was Town among 

 them, produced only thirty facks. The black- 

 apples fuit wet land, being remarkably hard. 

 I found, that by fowing rape among them I 

 had loft one hundred and forty facks per acre ; 

 and I received only zl. \os. from feeding (beep 

 with the rape. The other fix acres wheat, 

 with the fame quantity of manure as the fix a- 

 cres of potatoes, and three ploughings after 

 the oats — produce eight bufhels lefs than on 

 the fix acres where potatoes had preceded the 

 wheat. The twelve-acre field, oats^-eight 

 bufhels per acre fown — the belt crop I ever 

 faw of the Tartarian fort— fix feet high regu- 

 larly, and the thickeft on the ground perhaps 

 ever feen. 



In the year 1796 I had in the feeding-pafture 

 fourteen cows, fourteen horfes, fifty ewes, and 

 fixty-feven lambs. The fuperfluous grafs was 

 mown thegreateft part of fummer, and given 

 to the horfes in the (table, I found t'ciG cows 

 and fheep do much better* There was a 

 Scotch cow amongft them, which the May 

 twelve months before coft five guineas. She 

 was with calf— fold her calf for fevenxeen 



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