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1786— Clean plowing wichout dung-— coleſced, an ordi- nary crop— ſheep fed.

1787— Barley—one buſhel and a half per acre ſowed— no dung— produce ſix quarters per acre.

1788— Clover—no dung—mowed twice; an enormous

crop both times.

1789— Beans—three buſhels per acre— ſheep-fed— no dung— produce ſeven quarters per acre.

1790— Batley—one buſhel and a half per acre— no dung produce a little above ſix quarters.

1791— Clean deep plowing— dunged and coleſeed—ſheep fed—wonderfully ſtrong.

1792— Barley— one buſhel and a half per acre— in many Parts rotten on the ground— produce five quarters per acre — clover in a great meaſure deſtroyed.

1793— Clover, an ordinary crop, partly for the reaſon above ſtated, and partly from extreme drought, but the land clean and very luſty.

The land is worth more, by at leaſt 5r. an acre, than at the beginning; and it is worthy of remark, that the other portions of the ſame farm, which, during the ſame years, have been managed exadily in the ſame manner, with the advantage of dung from the beginning, have borne no better crops, nor indeed quite ſo productive; and I am really of opinion, that if no dung had been uſed in 1791, the fubſe- quent barley and clover crops would have been much better.

After all the volumes that have been written upon farming, RATIONAL SXSTEM is the only true ground work of general improvement; and I ſfhould be glad to ſee any objection that can be offered to the above plan; for it ſeems to me, to admit of every crop that is uſeful to man or beaſt, without devlating from the general rule of management. Inſtead of coleſeed, any other vegetable—inſtead of barley, any other white corn— inſtead of clover, any other graſs ſced— inſtead

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