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turnips, carrots, and potatoes, in the rotation above- 

 mentioned: the carrots and potatoes coming upon 

 the fame ground only once in three years, the 

 turnips every other year, whereby the land is be- 

 come To clear of weeds, and fo rich, that my crops 

 are annually better, and the expence of hoeing 

 leflened at leaft one half. The foil, on which thi^ 

 hufbandry has been pradlifed, is a good loam, it\f 

 clined to fandy. 



I have kept fo few fheep, and obferved them fo 

 little, that I cannot prefume to offer my thoughts 

 to you upon that fubjed. 



Mr. Arthur Young's obfervation, that " the 

 " accounts are f6 amazingly contradidory, that no- 

 " thing can be gathered from them," is as true as 

 I am inclined to think his conclufion is, " that 

 ^* moifture is the caufe;'* and in this opinion I am 

 confirmed as far as a fingle inftance can confirm me. 

 It was in the cafe of a paddock adjoining to my 

 park, which had for feveral years caufed the rot in 

 moil of the Iheep which were put into it. In the 

 year 1769, I caufed it to be under-drained with 

 covered drains, which have worked well ever fince, 

 effe6lually curing its wetnefs; and notwithftanding 

 I have fince kept my fheep in it, I have never killed 

 one whofc liver has been at all affeded. 



This, 



