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Was cleared by the middle of May. The ground 

 then received another hoeing, and on the fame 

 drills where the fpinage grew, cabbages (that had 

 been previoufly raifcd in a feed plot) were planted. 

 The beans (lood for feed, and were fold for 8s. per 

 bulhel to a London feedfman. The cabbages were 

 carried from the land, and given to milking cows 

 about the month of February^ nor was it thought 

 right to fufFer any crops to be fed off this land, 

 fearing the beafts might injure it with their feet,^ 

 and that the water might (land in the holes their 

 hoofs had made; none but the lighted foils Ihould 

 be trod with cattle. The ploughing commence^ 

 for the fourth year immediately after the cabbages 

 were removed; and after the ground was well pul- 

 verized, peafe werefown in drills three feet afunderj; 

 thefe were gathered and fent to market in the pod, 

 and after the haulm was removed, coleworts (whict\ 

 had previoufly been raifed in a feed plot) were 

 planted about twelve inches diftant from each 

 other ; thefe were a good crop, and were fold to 

 the cow-keepers. Thus were eight profitable crops 

 obtained in four years, more than twice fufEcient 

 to pay for the fee of the land. — So far fays the 

 journal. 



I was an eye-witnefs to the crops which werq 

 raifed upon the fame land the eight fucceeding 



years, 



