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better their fecond or lean flock would thrive with 

 clean and frefh food. 



You afk me, if beans and wheat, alternately, 

 would not obviate the neceflity of fallowing heavy 

 lands, and prove for a confiderable length of time 

 a beneficial mode of cropping the ground. As I 

 have not experienced the practice, I can only con- 

 jecture, and tell you, that fome little time fince I 

 intended to have tried the experiment on two pieces 

 of (tiff wet ground, which I have laid tografs; and 

 that I have very little doubt but that, if the bean 

 crops be fometimes manured for, and always well 

 hoed, this mode would be a moil profitable one, 

 and, for any reafon I can fee to the contrary, might 

 endure forever; but (till, as it does not raife winter 

 food for cattle, I mud, for the fake of their dung, 

 prefer turnips to it, wherever they can be raifed. 



I am, Sir, 



with finccre regard and efteem, 



Your moll humble fervant, 



T. B. 



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