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grain I Next year it was fown with oats : not 

 a grain on it ! although the other part ©f the 

 field was covered regularly fix feet high, and 

 fo remarkably thick that no ajiimal had offer- 

 ed to make a track through it. Next wheats 

 again fallov/ed and manured* An excellent 

 crop which 1 fold for ten guineas per acre, ex- 

 clufive of the expences of harvefting, tlirafhing, 

 Sec. I was allowed to retain the Itraw and 

 chaff for my own ufe : yet, notwithfcanding all 

 the pains taken, not afingle grain grew on the 

 fpot in the corner.. From the above experi- 

 ment I infer, thai, had the whole fit- Id been li- 

 med equally with the fpot I have mentioned^ 

 it would have all been equally barren. 



I know a piece of rich land (which at this 

 time lets at 3/. 10s. per acre) ploughed out of 

 old fward which had not been taken up before 

 in the memory of man : it was fown with oats, 

 next limed, and immediately after liming, fown 

 with turnips. As this land was fo rich and 

 frefh, I was fanguine in my hope of a luxuriant 

 and fpeedy crop 3 but, the plants not thriving 

 according to my expectation, a kind of anxi- 

 ous curiofity was excited in my mind that oc» 



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