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This courfe of crops I confine only to ftrong or 

 ftiff clays. The principal manure we have yet in 

 ufe is town dung, and the dung that arifes from 

 farm-yards, mixed with earth dug up on the bor- 

 ders or under the hedges. What I wifh to have 

 undcrftood by clay, is only fuch as is well filled 

 with chalk-ftones, whether large or fmall. All 

 ftiff foil, without chalk-ftones, we call loam, or 

 brick earth. Thefe foils we mend with clay, and 

 find the grcateft improvement from it. 



Now, as it appears to me that your Society have 

 a real defign to encourage agriculture, I beg their 

 candid attention while I point out a few things 

 by which many of the beft farmers in our county 

 (and probably in your's alfo) are difcouraged from 

 making many improvements which might otherwifc 

 take place. 



Firft\ With refpedl to the method of letting 

 farms. Many Noblemen and Gentlemen of large 

 landed property, to favc thcmfelves the trouble 

 of examining into the real value of their eftates, 

 and of letting them properly, employ flewards to 

 tranfadt this bulinefs with their tenants. It fre- 

 quently happens that thefe flewards are gentlemen 

 brought up to the law, who have never had much 

 opportunity of knowing the value of land by ex- 

 K 3 perienccj 



