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Your Treatlfe has been read with the greateft 

 pleafiire and cagcrnefsi they have praifcd, they 

 have admired, they have been enraptured by your 

 >virdom> much more worthy of that name than 

 thofe fages which were almoft adored in Greece. 

 But your work has had the lot of all good books i 

 it has wrought but few changes. — New pradices, 

 (ay they, are plaufible, but they are not certain j 

 and therefore they retain the old, 



A man, for example, who has thirty arpents of 

 arable land, and a proportionable quantity of mea- 

 dow, fows, one year with another, twenty arpents, 

 ten to wheat and ten to maize, which is the cuftom 

 in this country: — For a trial, I fhould few but 

 fevens by this method three arpents in each divi- 

 fion might be fet apart to other tifes : Let him fow 

 ;hree ^arpents of the beft land with lucerne, three 

 with fainfoin,* which is perhaps the beft of forage, 

 becaufe it will grow in bad land; it will laft twelve 

 years, at leaft as long as lucerne ; it affords better 

 nourifhment, and for which a litde manure, once in' 

 three years, is fufficient.f 



P Sainfoin is what is called In this country Efparcette {Onobrycb'u^ 

 We call Sainfoin what is tlkwhere called Luccrncy [JMedka.} 



^ I afRrm thefe faAs from my own obfcrvatioftt. 



Voj., L A a Now, 



