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To,^im at meriting the compliment L have re- 

 ceived, whether I can be of any fuch fervice, will 

 be beft conjedlured by an account of my ufual 

 management of feventy acres; though it will pro- 

 bably lelTen very much any opinion of my capacity 

 as a farmer, when I acknowledge that forty of 

 thefe are conftantly in pafture, and the other thirty 

 only cultivated as fubfervient to grazing, by pro- 

 ducing the necelfary ftover and artificial pafture 

 for the troublefome cravings in winter and fpring. 

 Amufement on this fimple but rough plan is 

 united with great convcnicncy, at moderate ex- 

 pence, little attention, and no material hazard. 

 The thirty acres of arable are in four fields; and if 

 a compleat year's fallow does not follow the wheat 

 crop, (which is here occafionally neccflary even to 

 the neateft farmer towards purifying the foil, and 

 which by leafe is never permitted to go beyond a 

 third crop, turnips and clover excepted) my 

 routine is or may be, from the manure I can af- 

 ford, if I am not out of humour at a little extra 

 trouble, as follows: — 



As foon as poflible after the wheat is off, the 

 ftubble is mown, and flacked for littering the 

 cow-yard in winter, the field ploughed, and half 

 of it fown with two buftiels of fmall black winter 

 tares, and one bufliel of rye; the other half is well 



fallowed 



