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inches. It bore a good crop of horfc-bcans where 

 covered deep, and on the borders and fuch parts 

 as had very little earth thrown over it, blue marrow 

 peas were planted with good fuccefs, and plenty of 

 white clover feed fown all over the field. This fi-^ 

 nifhed the bufinefs at the expence of twenty pounds, 

 exchifive of the furplus value of the corn exceeding 

 the 5I. for rent. The fecond year it bore a bad 

 crop of grafs, which was, however, worth more 

 than 5I. the old rent. The third year it was fome- 

 thing better J and by the fourth year it had a good 

 found turf, fo that the fifth year it was compleatly 

 guttered} and by fummer-feeding, in a few years, 

 it became rich pafture land, without the affiftance 

 of a fingle load of dung or compoft of any kind. 

 It gradually increafed in value till Ictt to a tenant 

 for 15I. per annum, and has continued at that rent 

 to the prcfcnt time. 



One clofe of eight acres belonging to this farm 

 had been dug over in pits and pools, to repair the 

 fea-wall, and fo exceedingly bad and irregular that 

 it was thought incapable of improvement. It was 

 therefore let to a tenant for five years, at 4I. per 

 annum. At the end of this term, during which 

 20I. being expended with fuccefs about the former 

 clofe, operated as a powerful motive to attempt 

 doing fomething to thefe eight acres: forty pounds 



were 



