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when the clover is ploughed in, it will be followed by 
pasture oats.* 
* The samples of soils sent by Mr. Young, exhibited the 
most marked difference. The progress from absolute ster- 
rility, to rich mould, might be traced by the appearance of 
colour in the several parcels. I with great pleasure bear tes- 
timony on the subject of Mr. Young’s improvements. In the 
years 1806 and 1808, I saw cattle feeding in good pasture 
and good crops of grain, and grass growing in fields, which 
in 1804, I thought totally irreclaimable from briars, garlick 
roots, and original poverty of soil. Where manure is at hand, 
and capital in the possession of the cultivator to purchase it, 
any soil may be rendered fertile; but Mr. Young affords 
the best example of good farming, viz. enriching a naturally 
poor soil, and restoring fertility to exhausted land, by re- 
turning thereto its own produce raised with the least possible 
expence. 
J. M. 
