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As I have brought the medium quantity and 

 price of each crop to the fame round fum, it may 

 not be thought exadt; in the former, I conjedure, 

 I have not exceeded ; and believe, that in fuch a 

 courfe, on proper land, however the produce 

 might annually vary, the total profit on the whole 

 would at the end of the period be gained. The 

 cxpence of fuch a courfe of cultivation depends fo 

 much on local and temporary circumftances, on 

 the nature of foil, ftate of feafons, &c. that it is 

 beft left to every one's own calculation, 



I begin with an additional quarter of barley per 

 acre, as on our heavy lands a fallow is Juppojed ne- 

 ceflary for that crop, and to pay by the increafed 

 produce. But in general ^ on friable land, I fee no 

 reafon why the hoc and the plough, when effedlually 

 and quickly ufed, and where capital, fpirit, and 

 attention, are not wanting, and the quantity of land 

 not fuperior X.0 t\\tk exertions, (hould not always be- 

 vejicially fuperfede the necelfity of a fallow; which, 

 however excufed, is too often only ignorance, ob- 

 ilinacy, timidity, or parfimony difguifed ; nor why 

 a long leafe, with a reftraint on the four laji years, 

 might not permit a fuccefTion of crops fo cultivated. 

 Under fuch rcftriclions the produce of the tenant, 

 however quick, would be the landlord's profit as 

 '.veil as his own. 



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