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/mall farms only, which they kept free from weeds* 

 continually turning the ground, and manuring it 

 plentifully and judicioufly. When they had by 

 this method brought the foil to a proper degree of 

 clcanlinefs, health, and fweetnefs, they chiefly 

 cultivated the more delicate graffes, as the fureft 

 means of obtaining a certain profit upon a fmall 

 eftate, without the expence of keeping many 

 draught horfes and fervants. A few years expe- 

 rience was fufficicnt to convince them, that ten 

 acres of the beft vegetables for feeding cattle, 

 properly cultivated, would maintain a larger flock 

 of grazing animals, than forty acres of common 

 farm grafs on land badly cultivated. They alfo 

 found, that the bed vegetables for this purpofe 

 were lucerne, fainfoin, trefoil of moft kinds, fweet 

 fenugreek, buck and cow-wheat, field turnips, and 

 fpurrcy.* 



The grand political fecret of their hufbandrv, 

 therefore, confifted in letting farms on improve- 

 ment. They are laid alfo to have difcovered 

 nine forts of manure, but what they all were, we 

 arc not particularly informed. We find however, 

 that marie was one of them, the ufe and virtues 

 of which appear alfo to have been well knmvn in 

 this kingdom two hundred years ago,f although 



• Agricult. Di<£tionary. -f See Fit l HERBERT and TufSBR. 



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