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(except in large towns and cities) appears as an im-^ 

 pofition on our underflanding. It is true, peat- 

 afhes kept dry is an excellent manure, yet although 

 I have turbary of my own fufficient to produce 

 twenty waggon-loads of turf in a year, I have never 

 been able to enrich more than fix acres of land with 

 this manure fince I have kept a farni. 



I would not be underftood to mean, that meadow 

 land thus improved cannot be reduced to its orir 

 ginal ftate of poverty, for I know to the contrary, 

 having tried an experiment upon twelve acres of 

 meadow which have been in my occupation be- 

 tween thirty and forty years. The original rent 

 was 9I. per annum; and having a leafe upon it, I 

 improved it in the manner here ftated, till it pro- 

 duced me a ton and a halfi and fome years two tons 

 of hay an acre. The rent was then raifed to 18I. 

 per annum, when I immediately began to work it 

 backwards by mowing it every year (fometimes 

 very late) and hauling off the hay, letting the gutters 

 fill, and the banks and ant-hills increafe, fo that half 

 a ton an acre is not reckoned in its prefent ftate a 

 bad crop; the rent muft therefore, in a few years, 

 be abated to 9L a year as formerly. 



I beg leave to fuggeft an obfervation in this place 

 that is worthy the attention of the agriculturift, as 



applied 



