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to five hundred bulhels of linrte per acre; which 

 with four or five ploughings and harrowing, and^ 

 the rent, feed, and taxes, coft them from five to 

 feven pounds per acre ; and they were fubjed to 

 the like expence the ftcond fummer before they 

 obtained any benefit from their firft crops of wheat, 

 which diftreffed them, and delayed the payment of 

 their rents, as mod farmers are ambitious to rent 

 farms too large for their capitals. After wheat they 

 ufually fowed barley and clover; and then wheat, 

 and barley, and fometimes oats; which laft crop 

 did much harm to the land, and they were obliged 

 to let it reft five or Cix years to their lofs. Having 

 large eftates under my care, and farmed for fome 

 years, I am endeavouring to improve tliem by ad- 

 vice and example, as well as by reftri6live cove- 

 nants in their leafes; and I have the pleafure to 

 think that my endeavours, with thofc of fome other 

 gendcmen in this county, and the rewards offered 

 by our Society (the Glamorganfhire) produdivc of 

 much good. 



As the principal obje<5t of fummer fallows is to 

 clean the land, I think turnips, rape, cale, &:c. in 

 winter i and potatoes, mangel-wurzel, beans, &c* 

 in fummer, will fully anfwer that end^ and keep the 

 land in good hearty with occafional djelTings. 



I have 



