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and in that be conftantly fed-, it may then alone be 

 regarded as a meliorating crop, but otherwife as a 

 wearing one; and a diftindtion of it is thus made in 

 fome of our leafes. In the one inftance the land is 

 probably forfeited, by pufhing forth into full bloom 

 fuch a ftrong crop, and continued too perhaps to a 

 fecond year; in the other, it is cherifhed by its paf- 

 turage, and improved by its being early turned in. 

 When intended for merely one year's feed, any of 

 the other artificial grafles may, to fecure a plant, be 

 fown with it. 



My prefent wheat is on the rye-grafs ley, men- 

 tioned in your third volume, [Article xxxix.] and 

 appears as perfect as on one of clover. My field 

 for early feed of next fpring is alfo rye-grafs thickly 

 /own, and, as a little trial, I have fown with it, in 

 one portion, fome trefoil ; in another, the perennial 

 white ; and in the third, perennial red clover, com- 

 monly termed xow-grajs. 



However congenial to the foil of a farm any 

 peculiar fpecies of corn, pulfe, or vegetable, may 

 appear; the chance of a fecure crop from them, in 

 a large fcale, under, as I faid before, the common 

 hujbandry, will in general be in a proportion to their 

 not being fown too often : — the variablenefs of our 

 climate corrects fo frequently, or brings to fuch a 

 P3 fort 



