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wheels about fiſteen loads per acre of the turf ashes; then I 50wed Sixteen or eighteen pounds of Dutch clover, and four bushels of ray grass; 1. e. eight or nine pounds of Dutch clover, and two bushels of ray grass per acre; these I brushed with a pair of harrows bushed, and rolled three or four times with a very beavy rol! in order to make them as firm as pos- Sible. Upon that part of the meadow, which was boggy and rushy, I laid from eighiy to a hundred tumbril loads per acre of and, fine gravel, and mould, as 1 could most conveniently. come at them, cutting and carrying away every billock or waste hearth 1 could find. Having barrowed and rolled this, I dibbled upon every acre Lwo busbels of Summer vetches, one bushel of early grey peas, and two. bushbels of Poland oats, all mixed together, and then Sowed Dutch clover and ray grass as I did upon the dry part of the meadow, in which 1 omitted 1be oats, knowing they would not have Succeeded.

In dibbling thus, the holes ought to be four inches square from each otber, and fiow.two to four Seeds Should be put into a hole. Peas and vetches thus growing upon grass land, whether on low meadows or dry uplands, have never failed with me of baving excellent effect. They entirely destroy moss, and meliorate the Soil. Itis to be observed that vpon dry uplands I omit the ray grass.“ When the erop is forward in Ihe pod, I mow it for hay, and as Soon as it 1s dry, I put it upon small cocks, and then on to large ones, 80 as 10 pre- went the leaves from falling of. If 1 do not want this hay for my Sheep, 1 cut it for my horses; and it is 80 nutritious, that it Serves both as hay and corn. 5

In the year 1803 1 grew thirty acres of vetches, peas, and oats, managed as above: the crop was not less than from two and a half to three loads per acre: by a load you know I mean as much as a waggon drawn by four horses can carry. In the Same vear I 5owed one hundred acres of turnips three times over, and.at last lost my whole crop, except a Single turvip. 1 had five hundred and thirty-two breeding ewes to maintain in the following winter: having provided thirty troughs twelve feet jong, and a straw-cutting machine,(which with a horse will cut ten coombs in an bour,) I cut the hay made of the vetches, peas, and oats, and thus fed my Sheep, which produced me a greater number of lambs, and a greater quantity of milk for the lambs, than I ever had from turnips» They were kept in the straw yard from the 10th 6f October to the middle of April; and thus I kept them Jast year, and Shall always keep them whilst I remain upon'a heavy-Jand farm. They eat the straw well, and make a fär better muck than that Irom bullocks, It was by much the