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tidn of their fair work; and the publick, by the 

 feed faved from a ufclefs to a profitable beall. 



That oxen on fmall farms and inclofures would 

 ftot anfwer for work, 1 believe; nor would the 

 laving from the fattening them, afterwards, be fo 

 great as at fiifl; feems probable; but on large farms 

 and heavy cartage, they muft furely be very profit- 

 able, comparatively with an expenfivc team of 

 horfeS; through the fcandalous number of which, 

 and the luxurious mode of ufing and fupporting 

 them, a very large portion of our beft pafturage is 

 thrown away ; a crop of oats made as valuable as 

 one of barley ; and, be our export of wheat and 

 malt again ever fo produdive, a melancholy de-» 

 dudlion to be made on its neat produce, by the 

 quantity of oats annually imported to anfwer our 

 moft prodigal confumption. 



That you may not imagine me to have an itch 

 at haranguing upon evils, without forming fome 

 practical fcheme to counteracV them, I fend you 

 a courfe of twenty-one fuccefiivc crops, in which 

 no two corn crops fucceed each other, but are 

 conftantly fcparated by either pulfe or herbage. Iri 

 fuch a fucceflion, the beans, peafc, and turnips* 

 mull be very neatly three times hoed; the wheat 

 otKc. The l?nd richly dunged for turnips; the 

 clover and tare^ fed offi and the plough turned 



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