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a future heavy lofs, from the neccflity he will be 

 under of letting it lie fallow, and of applying much 

 cxpenfive labour in order to extirpate weeds, and 

 much more expenfive manure in order to recover 

 its loft ftrength. Yet ftill, there is a certain vigour 

 in thofe fields, which have been under a judicious 

 courfe of meliorating crops, though but moderately 

 manured, which even a fallow and a complete (ler- 

 coration cannot beftow on any foil which hath been 

 once impoverifhed J as may be more eafily perceived 

 by a difcerning eye, than defcribed. 



Our farmer hath been taught, that the good 

 ground (on which his chief dependance is for pay- 

 ing his rent) if preferved in good heart, will often 

 mend the bad; but the impoverifhing of one or 

 two of the beft fields will frequently affed the 

 whole eftatein the decreafe of its pafture, in leflen- 

 ing the quantity of manure, and increafing the ex* 

 pence of tillage. 



It hath frequently been inculcated on him, That 

 his future fuccefs depends much on his firft courfe 

 of crops; that at firft efpecially, meliorating crops 

 are to be preferred, as far as circumftances will ad- 

 mit, to exhaufting ones ; — that the latter, whenever 

 they arc fown, fhould be fucceeded by the former; 



that 



