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On light lands, turnips, barley, clover, and 

 wheat, [^the Norfolk cour/e] form a mod profitable 

 fuccelFion ; but in time even ibe/e lands feem fur- 

 feited, with the' clover at leaft; and trefoil, and 

 ray-grafs, are obliged to be ufed to gain a fwarth. 

 With us wheat at every fourth, or certainly every 

 fifth year, is thought a necelTary profit. 



In the preceding rotation, I have given, as the 

 mofi- produdive, five crops of wheat, and four of 

 barley, and two of every other; fo that the variety, 

 and chance of lafting benefit, feems as great as 

 common farming will admit of. 



Ignorant as I am in pra<5lical hufbandiy, I ven- 

 ture thefe obfervations from a thorough convidion, 

 that a mofl: liberal encouragement of agriculture, 

 and unreftrnined fale of its produce, is ultimately 

 the only fure means- of promoting manufactures, 

 commerce, and population; and that if, inftead of 

 the poHcy inevitably fatal to a free and commercial 

 ftate, furnillied with fuch a variety of native pro- 

 duds, of extending dominion, and forcing trade, 

 limilar encouragement had been given towards co- 

 lonizing and cultivating our wade lands ; every man 

 would have kept at home, and fuch inducements 

 would have made him equally indufirious there, in 

 his produce and expenditure. This would have 



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