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tion, and, if without material expence it can be had, 

 a little water, make together on any fpot, without 

 woods, lawns, lakes, or temples, an ornamented 

 farm within the reach of every country gentleman, 

 who may fatisfy his honeft pride, and not injure 

 (nay, probably improve) his fair income. 



That hoed crops will on mod lands anfwer the 

 purpofe of fallows, is at leaft mofl: probable; but 

 as this management cannot be effedtual on heavy 

 ones, but at a large expence, and the return from 

 the chance of feafons may not be greater on the 

 whole than from fallowmg after every third or 

 fourth crop, which is a rough but fure mode of 

 preparing his land ; no common farmer will ven- 

 ture the neceflary expence, nor confequently can 

 by leafe be entrufted with the privilege of conftant 

 cropping. With us three crops are allowed in 

 fucceflion, provided beans, peafe, turnips, each at 

 leaft twice well hoed, or clover, be one of the 

 crops, and then fallow. 



On this plan our farmers cultivate one hundred 

 acres of ftrong, moift, arable land, at the expence 

 of four moderate horfes only;* plough with a pair 



• Many of our conefpondcBts doubt whether four horfes can properly cul- 

 tivate one hundred acres of moift arable land, as the t'fne for working the 

 ^allows is often muck fiiortcoed by t(ic precarioufnefs of our climate. 



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