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afterwards cleaning, pulverization, and manure, with tender cropping, and laid to pasture for a time, with plenty of seeds;

after which, a judicious and sparing system of cropping may be repeated, with due attention to the staple and nature of the soil; and afterwards laid to pasture as before.

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AGRICULTURE OF STAFFORDSHIRE.

THE following remarks and observations have been Ye- ceived, or made, since the work has been in the press, and are therefore added to the Appendix. Some anonymous re- marks have also been received, to which the same attention cannot be paid, unless the gentlemen who made them would please to give in their names and address; as some things in such remarks want rectifying, which the writer of this can- ‘pot do without consulting their author.

LAYING LAND TO GRASS.

‘¢ T have seen a field this summer(1795), on a strong soil, “which was laid down with lb. per acre of ¢rifolium << flexuosum, 4lb. of white clover(trifelium repens), and 4lb. “< of burnet; it is an incomparable pasture, belonging to “< Henry Crockett, Esq. of Shussions, near Church-Eaton, in “‘this county. Mr. Crockett thinks very highly of this << clover, the seed of which he purchased in London at a “¢ reasonable price, by the name of cow-grass.’’—Rev. Sam. Dickenson.

<¢ T have to observe, that the produce of the seed bought ** for cow-grass, has generally left the ground, at the end of ** two years, in the same manner with the common bien-

*“nial clover; the seed of the true perennial plant would ‘‘ doubtless be a great acquisition; also that 4lb. per acre

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