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every purpofe. And I have been informed, much 

 of their land, which was not worth more than 

 20s. an acre twelve or fourteen years ago, is now 

 worth, at leaft, half fo many pounds : — So much 

 has it been improved by the culture and manure 

 bellowed upon it, without the lead advantage 

 from fallowing. 







As to the electric property of plants, men- 

 tioned by one of the members, how much fo ever 

 its theory may have been fupported by men of 

 learning and ingenuity, it has been long repro- 

 bated as vilionary and chimerical by practical 

 hufbandmen, it being repugnant to, and contra- 

 dicted by daily experience. 



Let a fertile foil continue to be planted with 

 any one kind of grain whatever, 'till its ftrength 

 be exhaufted, and no longer capable of bearing 

 that particular grain, it will be found equally in^ 

 capable of producing a crop of any other kind 

 which requires an equal degree of fuftenance. 

 Should a fertile field be fown firft with wheat, 

 then with barley, then with oats, and then with 

 rye, it would be found fuch field would bear 

 neither turnips nor clover, 'till its fertility was re* 

 ltored either by manure or by fallowing. And 

 fhould it be planted with wheat or barley only 9 



feverai 



