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better to thofe who fliall come after mc, and I am fare much 

 more than any advance of the rent to myfclf. 



* I afTure you, I think it very encouraging, tliat you tell me 

 what you have done makes fo good an appearance ahcady, even in 

 this moft extraordinary year, that the mouths of the country againft 

 new mcthodo are a liitle ilopped. I hope, in a little time, and 

 with the help of a more favourable feafon, you (hall get entire- 

 ly the better of this difficulty ; and it is not a fmali one, to have 

 the weiglit of all the tongues of an idle talking country, cenfurin'T 

 a young man at his firft fetting out in the world. Alany a juft 

 and a good underftanding has be^n talked down, and tne honeil: 

 undertaker funk by the clamour of the wicked and malicious, 

 joined with that of the it^norant mob. 



* For my fiiare, had I not received your letter, I defigncd to 

 have Vv^ritten little more upon the fubje6!: of the tenants improve- 

 ments, having heard of nothing but bad prices and difficulties, 

 with v/hich, though in my opinion fometimes they appeared ca- 

 ller anfwered than riiade, yet I was tired writing to people, to 

 i"et them right in what I thought tliey might have found out with 

 as little thought, as is required in the great iiiyllery of two and 

 tliree making five. 



*• There is not a doubt but the putting clover feed through 

 a mill is the bcil way, if the millers will be careful in a thing 

 that is newy and that it Vw-ill bear the expcnce. The foils you 

 x:all dujjiej ought to be quickened with lime, (I believe hot or un- 

 iTacked lirne v/ould do v/ell) fand, hot dutig-s, or manure of fucli 

 kinds. , From v/hat I have feen and obfervcd, I incline to think 

 that it is bell to mix clover either fmall or great v.ith rye-grafs. 

 The yellow hop clover I have obferved do miglity well. It gives 

 the grafs a thick ftool, helps to fupport the rye-grafs, makes the 

 hay (lat and very nourifhing food, and mends the foggage ; fo I 

 am not for fowing rye-grafs alone, where the land will bear yel- 

 low hop clover along v/ith it \ and I have this year {ctn gooA 

 crops of the two together upon very poor land. Where you arc 

 to take only two years of good ground in clover, and turn it to 

 corn again, I am not for .mixing rye-grafs with it. The fmall 

 hop clover v/iil make the llubbles very good, the mod of win- 

 ter, for ffieep. I have feen very poor land, which had beea 

 run out with too many crops of corn, as is too frequent with 

 us, laid down v/ith fmall hop clover for ffieep. i never ap- 

 prove of lands being brought to this pafs ; no farmer finds ad- 

 vantage, upon the main, by fuch hufbandry ; but if he v.-ill do 

 wrong, this is the bed mends he can make himfelf, (met it 

 yields fome food for fheep, which otherwife it v/ould not do ; 

 jsmd their feeding upon it mends it a iitile. Your clover has 



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