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terms as he chofe, he might foon make his land 

 as fertile as the climate would admit, or he could 

 defire. But in moft fituations, the quantity to be 

 got, as every one knows, bears a very fmall propor- 

 tion, indeed, to the quantity wanted. 



As a fubftitute and fuccedaneum to the dung- 

 heap, ploughing in green vegetables has been 

 adopted with fuccefs. This pradlice is a kind of 

 improved fallowing; for though the land be crop- 

 ped, its produce at a proper feafon is ploughed in, 

 and no prefent profit is derived from it. The land 

 therefore may be properly faid to be under fallow, 

 until by future culture it is in fit condition to re- 

 ceive the feed of a future crop. 



But the more general pra(5lice is, when the land 

 has been exhaufted by having been too frequently 

 cropped, and is become foul and full of weeds, to 

 give it a year's fallow; or fometimes two winters 

 and a fummer's fallow, which is often necelTary to 

 eradicate the weeds, thoroughly pulverize the foil, 

 and render it fufficiently fertile to bear a crop of 

 wheat. But when a man enters upon a farm that 

 has been racked out by the former tenant, and 

 the whole of it left in the fad condition above 

 reprefcnted, to give it a year's fallow, without 

 receiving any beneficial return, would to moft 



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