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An experienced farmer knows his land, com- 

 paratively fpcaking, as he knows his horfes. If 

 his horfes are in good condition, and occafion re- 

 quire it, they are able to go a double journey, 

 if nothing unufual befals them. In like manner 

 we know our lands, if they are in good condition, 

 and it pleafes God to fecond our endeavours with 

 a fuitable feafon, will yield a good crop; but if 

 we know that our land is not in condition to bear 

 a good crop, we had better fallow it. There is 

 no profit in a bad crop; for although it colts 

 little, it not only yields little, but leaves the land 

 in worfe condition than it was before fuch crop. 

 I now occupy a field which yielded me eight good 

 crops fucceflively in as many years ; though before 

 I took it, by being too often cropped, and by 

 carclefs management, it became fo foul as to pro- 

 duce only eight bufhels of wheat per acre. This 

 change was effedled by keeping it clean, by fca- 

 fonable ploughings, and a fuitable courfe of crops. 

 Firft, I made a fallow, and manured it with dung. 

 My courfe of crops were, 



1. Turnips; 2. Barley; 3. Clover; 4. Wheat. 



I then ploughed up the land, and gave it four 

 dry tilths, with a fowing tilth before I fowed it 

 in the fpring. My fifth crop was oats; the fixth, 



clover 



