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convinced, that when from the unfeafonablenefs of 

 the weather, the foulnefs of the ground, and not 

 being in proper tilth, it would be imprudent to 

 fow it, the giving it three or four months fallow at 

 that feafon would give a manifeft fuperiority to the 

 crop fown in February over what might be fown in 

 November, abftraded from the confideration of all 

 injury corn fown fo late in the feafon is liable to 

 from frofts, &c. in its young and tender ftate. 



It is true there can be no certain dependancc 

 upon fowing in February. Froft and fnow fo fre- 

 quently happen in that month as to render fowing 

 fometimes impracticable: fhould it fo happen, the 

 foil will be in an improved condition for beans or 

 oats in March, or ftill more, if convenient and fuit- 

 able, for peafe or barley in April. Now, after a 

 winter's fallow of five or fix months, I am decidedly 

 of opinion, that a crop of either of the articles 

 above-mentioned, even without manure, would be 

 more profitable than a crop of wheat fown in au 

 tumn in ground that was foul and in imperfedl tilth, 

 though manured at an expencc of feveral pounds 

 an acre. It Ihould never be forgot, that it is the 

 net profit, and not the grofs amount, that is the true 

 and only proper objecfl of the farmer's purfuit. 



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