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obtaining plenty of each is, to appropriate the land 

 to the production of fuch crops as are mod fuitable 

 to its nature. 



It is admitted, that fome land has been very im- 

 prudendy broken up and converted to arable, which 

 was of much more value to the occupier, while it 

 was in grafs j at the fame time it cannot be denied, 

 that fome are as injurioufly prejudiced againft the 

 plough, and will not confent to have unfertile pas- 

 tures broken up, although they might be greatly 

 improved thereby. I have now in my eye feveral 

 fields not far from Waminfter, which would be 

 worth double their prefent value to the occupier, 

 if the owner would confent to their being ploughed 

 and planted with corn at proper intervals. 



Pafture fields, when become hide-bound and 

 mofly, bearing little elfe but a fine wiry grafs, al- 

 moft as void of fubftance as fuftenance, might 

 be expeditioufly and effectually improved by the 

 plough. Were fuch lands planted with wheat on 

 the fod, as practifed in the county of Norfolk, and 

 the winter after well manured, and planted with 

 beans the March following in rows with three feet 

 intervals, well horfe-hoed till June, and then fowed 

 with turnips to be eaten by fheep the following 

 winter; then in April to be well prepared and 



fowed 



