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good Sandy loam; but my predecessor having it the year before under Wheat it came to Me exceedingly impoverished; and prior to my undertaking, it had received two followings, cutting each other Crops ways, the whole was thrown into Clods of about nine inches Square, and these so matted with roots of Couch grass & c. that after repeated hoeings I could not reduce them; otherwise ^ addition and /addition of the Seed had be better my Crop must have proved considerably better; yet with these disadvantages I at Midsummer laid twelve Cart loads of ^ addition underline farm yard /underline /addition Dung on an Acre, and instantly ploughed it on to one bout ridges, and in the middle of each covered up the Dung.

On each of these at two feet distance I sat out a row of Plants from the Seed bed, which had been sown about eight Weeks before. When they seemed sufficiently rooted, I hand hoed them, and then horse hoed with a common swing plough, fetching on either side a furrow from each row, and throwing it into the middle of the intervals; and returning this in due time to the plants, compleated the cultivation. They then soon flourished amazingly, threw out much foliage, and continued growing the following Winter.

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