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brafh nature, — a foil in fome people's opinion un- 

 favourable to cabbage. They will tell you it ought 

 to be a ftiff clay, or heavy loam; my fuccefs, how- 

 ever, in the growth of cabbages, proves that more is 

 to be expected from manure and management than 

 the difputers about foils feem aware of. This re- 

 mark, indeed, will apply to mofl crops, but you 

 will pardon my making it. 



The value of our arable land per acre, is about 

 30s. on the average; which is in my opinion too 

 high a price to allow giving a direct fummer fal- 

 low. But if the land were as low as half that price, 

 I mould endeavour to raife turnips, cabbages, &c. 

 as a fallow crop : fuch a crop is worth more or lefs 

 according to the price of hay, fometimes 5L 61. 7L 

 or more, per acre, which is certainly at any rate an 

 object, both to the farmer and the community at 

 large; and far more eligible in mod filiations than 

 letting the land lie for a bare fallow. For after the 

 cabbage is fed off, (which I always endeavour to 

 do, and fow the land to wheat by Old Candlemas) 

 I find, by more than ten years' experience, an addi- 

 tional advantage in the goodnefs of the following 

 crop. Such wheat with me is ever fuperior to that 

 AhichI fow at or before Michaelmas. The fort 

 of wheat I generally fow after fuch green 'crops, is 



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