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IS fmall in pfoportion as that of the roots is large. 

 This notion, repugnant as it certainly is to common 

 fenfe and reafon, as well as to experience and ob- 

 fervation, is firmly believed and maintained by men 

 of very good abilities ; fo invincible are prejudices 

 early imbibed, and fupported by local cuftoms, and 

 habits of practice long eftablifhed. 



The writer is clearly of opinion, that there are 

 few arable farms in the kingdom which are not 

 capable of great improvement by planting of fain- 

 foin, more efpecially thofe which are but poorly 

 provided with good pafture and meadow land. 

 The pooreft fields of fuch farms might by proper 

 management be brought to produce good crops of 

 fainfoin 5 and land, the natural intrinfick value of 

 which is not more than from 2s. 6d. to 5s. an acre 

 per annum, might certainly, at a very moderate 

 •expence, be made worth from 20s. to 40s. This 

 would prove an unfpeakable advantage to the 

 occupier as well as to the owner of a farm that is 

 almoft wholly arable, as it would enable him to 

 keep a much larger number of milch-cows, and 

 hogs in proportion, and by thefe means greatly in- 

 creafe the quantity of manure for the improvement 

 of his corn-fields. 



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