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As the little arable land I cultivate is chiefly fub^ 

 fervient to the pafturage of a few cattle, I have 

 been rather whimlical in my attempts at the 

 beft for winter and fpring, but have always found 

 that it requires a much founder land than ours 

 chiefly is, to venture in any extenfive degree at 

 winter grazing. Cabbages in fuch a fpot, as being 

 planted on ridges, -and wanting a flironger foil, feem 

 preferable to turnips; but on an enquiry lately 

 among the great dairy-farms of the heavy part of 

 Suffolk, I found the culture of cabbages had de- 

 dined, from fomc experience of the deficiency in 

 the fucceeding crop of barley.* 



For early fpring feed, I know nothing fo cer- 

 tain, and fo little expenfive (which with us, winter 

 tares, a moft excellent pafl:urage, are not) as rye- 

 grafs, fown as clover with oats or barley; the ufual 

 objedions to this grafs appear to me to be entirely 

 obviated, by fowing it extremely thick, not lefs than 

 a bufliel and half or two bulliels per acre, which 

 renders it proportionably fine; and feeding it as 

 early and as conftantly as poflible ; by this manage- 

 ment the turf turns in at the next autumn for 

 wheat, as richly as the ufual clover-Icy; and ha» 

 with me produced as good crops of corn. 



* This will be the cafe when leguminous crops are naX fed off K\i9 

 bad, which cabbages cannot be. 



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