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^uce tke feed again. This piece was a pan, 

 or hollow, in the naiddle of a ploughed field, 

 which had never been drained. I followed my 

 predeceflbr's method for three years, did exact- 

 ly like him, ploughed, fowed, &c. — but reap- 

 ed nothing ! Tired of this fruitlefs expence, I 

 fct about draining the field, and manured 

 the whole with bone-compoll ; and the fpot 

 which until then had been fo very unprofitable 

 bore a better crop than any other. One pare 

 of the field lay high and dry, and always ufed 

 to bear the bed crop, but the bone-compofl 

 had no great efFe£l on this dry part 5 for it wa^ 

 by far the lead produ6tive according to its qua- 

 lity» The bones were mixed, according to the 

 vifual method, with coal-afhes, and fpread 

 equally over the whole field^ — a convincing 

 proof that compoft fo made is not proper for 

 dry land. 



I laft year had a quantity of bones broken 

 and mixed with good earth, and laid it on a 

 piece of moid land. A very good crop enfued. 

 I made fome experinnents two years fince on j; 

 piece of grafs-land, with a compoft made of 

 bones and coal-afnes without any other mix- 

 ture 



