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[in margin:] divided by 52 week in year

May 18th – On White Field up village where castings very chalky & large today measured square yard & picked up all castings, as field was rolled a little after 7 1/2 weeks ago, 49+3, there have [illeg] within this period. They weigh when well dried 1 lb 13 1/2 oz = 16 [+] 13 1/2 [=] 29 1/2 oz.

I went before field rolled seeing there very numerous on same place, so many times as much as above weight must [have] been cast up in year on square yard –

Weather lately very dry for 2 or 3 weeks or two have been & not one of casting fresh; so that casting was up in [illeg] of 5 weeks.

(I picked out places where they were thick, but I during [illeg] thicker on some spots how did I collect all the minute fragments as the trouble too great.) Therefore if castings were equally numerous all the year 9 times the above weight wd be thrown up in the year;

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but allowing for days summer & frost – we may only say between 5 & 6 times to above weight of 29 1/2 oz [x] 5 1/2 [=] 144 [+] 14 [=] 158 3/4 [÷] 16  4

(nearly 10 lb of earth in year)

I think I maybe forty numbers by 6.