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your crops to the nature of your foil, and the 

 ftate it is in. He imputes the fmall progrefs the 

 drill-plough has made in agriculture to the want 

 of attention to thofe particulars, arifing chiefly 

 from the adventurer's being too fanguine and 

 hafty to execute his new project, and actually do- 

 ing it before his ground is in order; of courfe 

 the crop fails, and the drill-plough is no more 

 heard of. 



\ithly. Mr. A. is not acquainted with any 

 grafs fit to cut and give to fheep in preference 

 to their feeding on the ground allotted out to 

 them in parcels by hurdles, where convenient or 

 necefTary; for which purpofe he knows no artifi- 

 cial grafs fuperior to meadow. If lucerne or 

 fainfoin were cut and carried to them, they would 

 eat the leaves and not the ftem. But Mr. A. 

 thinks Burnet fo healthy a grafs for fheep, that he 

 earneftly recommends it to all farmers to inter- 

 fperfe fome of it in every field fovvn with grafs 

 feeds, to remain in pafturc; for he conceives it 

 to be warm and aftringent, having put fheep that 

 have fcoured into fuch of his fields as abound 

 with it, by which they have foon been vifibly 

 benefited. At the fame time Mr. A. as earneftly 

 difTuades farmers from fowing it alone, (unlefs to 

 fave their feed) becaufe he never found any cattle 



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