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unfed from September to December, to afFord 

 (which in general it will do) good rough feed for 

 the cattle a few hours every day in the winter, till 

 the tares are ready to receive them. By the tares 

 and rye being thus early fed off, the field is not 

 only well manured in the eafieft mode, but the paf- 

 turage at that critical feafon is fufficiently valuable 

 to anfwer the expence of the whole year's fallow; 

 which with us, heavy lands, efpecially if intended 

 for barley in the following fpring, muft have. In 

 fuch circumftances, expenlive as tare-feed is, this 

 little crop (even at once feeding, in order that the 

 fallowing the field may commence with May) is 

 valuable even to a common farmer. 



Where gentlemen will afFord the necellary at- 

 tention, the drill and horfe-hoeing hulbandry is, 

 in point of elegance at leaft, their peculiar pro- 

 vince; but as the expence of it is, I conclude, on 

 any confiderable fcale very great,* and exadnefs 

 peculiarly neceflary, it is improbable that it (hould 

 exceed in profit the ufual hulbandry ; where, by a 

 rotation of grafs, pulfe, and corn crops, all equally 

 eflential, and an oppofite fpecies always fucceeding 

 to another, the land is never furfeited by famenefs ; 

 the cultivator fubjedl to little difappointment, fome 



• The expence it much leflened by divers excellent machines lately intra- 

 duccd into praftice, fome of which will be defcribed in courfe of this work. 



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