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turc whatever. This was thrown on at the 

 rateoffixty bufhels per acre. On another 

 part of the fame clofe nothing but coal-afhes 

 were ftrewed ; on another, manure or wharp 

 out of a pond -, and on another, fome fluff col- 

 le(5led from a fold-yard, pig-fold, &:c. From 

 the above different drefGngs there appeared 

 great difference : the coal-afnes were by far the 

 beft; the fluff from the fold-yard, pigfold, &c. 

 was the fecond beft ; the bones and allies were 

 third ; and the wharp from the pond, the worfl 

 of all. The above manures were all of them 

 of little fer vice the firfl year : but the fecond 

 year they produced a very great crop, the befl 

 and longefl natural grafs I ever faw. The 

 bents were continued heads four feet high, and 

 the under-grafs was at leafl three (ccty but not 

 quite fo thick fet at bottom as I expeded. 

 The dreffing having been laid on thick, and a 

 very great flood coming foon after, the crop 

 was rather thin the firfl year. The afhes this 

 third year fliil keep the lead, as does the fluff 

 from the fold-yard the fecond place. Lafl 

 year the eddifh was fhort all over the field, 

 gwing to the grafs ftanding too long before it 



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