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was cut, as the feafon had proved fo rainy. 

 Lecting grafs Hand over long without mowing 

 IS certain to impoverifh the enfuing eddilh. 



I faw an experiment tried on a nneadow. 

 Every other land had been manured with horfe- 

 dung compoft, and with bone-compoil, alter- 

 nately ; this had been done fix years. The 

 meadow was regularly mown every year : the 

 eddifli was on the land when I faw it; and 

 where the bone-compoll had been laid, the 

 crop had been, for the laft two years, by far 

 the moft abundant, and the after- grafs was 

 moft luxuriant. The foil is a poor coid clay : 

 and for fuch foil bones are the moil nourifhino- 

 of any thing, except coal-afhes. 



My own land, on which I tried the experi- 

 ments before mentioned, was a poor wharp, 

 and was in fome parts wet and poachy, and in 

 others very dry : the compoft was laid acrofs 

 the land, which was ridge and furrow. The 

 manure taken out of the pond was found to 

 anfwer befl: upon the ridges — an additional 

 proof of that kind of dreffing not being pro* 

 per for wet cold foils. But it will fuit gravel, 

 iand, or any light dry foil — All the bones I 



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