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seeds for fodder, as it is very injurious to such soils as mine, and believe it very possible to keep horses winter and. summer without mowing any seeds which is done by cutting them unthreshed oats or wheat, straw or beans, in the win- ter months: in summer they are kept in the fold upon green fodder. A certain quantity of land kept in-a garden stile for such succession of green fodder is an excellent practice. Too let land lay three years in seeds I apprehend is not a good practice, particularly in light sandy land; for the third year’s seeds will bear very little stock in pro- portion to the first and second years;-of course the land cannot benefit by the stock, and if it only benefit by rest, it follows that it should be ploughed up at the end of the second year, and to get it into a state of fresh seeds again as soon as possible.; Iam, SIR, Your obedient humble servant, Stone Hill, F. RAYNES, April 3, 1798.

Lo Robert Lowe, Esq. Oxton.

P.S. As clover seed in general is very dear, and from that circumstance land is often not half seeded, I should recom- mend to every farmer to grow his own seeds of every sort, which may be done in all situations.

N.B. This Letter not being received till after the corre&ted Report was printed off, could not be inserted in the body of it.

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