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overflowing, had given nurture to abundance of 

 rufhes. I ordered water-furrows to be cut, fuffi- 

 cient to carry off all wet, and fpread over the whole 

 meadow wood-afhes brought dry fronn a lime and 

 brick-kiln, to the quantity of forty bufhels per acre; 

 I kept it clofe fed that fummer inftead of mowing 

 it: in the winter, a little before Chriftmas, I drefled 

 it well with dung, and the produce of grafs an- 

 fwered well the expence: I cut full two tons per 

 acre of excellent grafs free from rufhes. 



My aim was to bring all my land as foon as pof- 

 fible to bear turnips, which I confider as the foun- 

 dation of good hufbandry, in the following order: 

 Turnips, barley, clover, and wheat, and this fuc- 

 cefTion invariably. After I got miy land in order, 

 for which 1 fpared no expence, my crop was 

 large, five quarters of barley, and from eight to 

 ten facks of wheat in general. I made it a rule al- 

 ways to manure my clover as foon after the barley 

 was off as I could; and this dreffing was of the 

 befl materials I could collect, with liable dung if 

 I could get it. But to proceed in my ftory with 

 the reft of my farm; for I have only yet mentioned 

 fifty-two acres. 



No. XI. had borne a fecond crop of oats felf- 

 fown: this, to be fure, muft be fummer- fallowed. 



I had 



