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specting a junction of tillage and manure, shewing that the 

 former will never be successful without the latter, and that 

 raising large quantities of manure should be a principal object 

 with the farmer : there is also some important matter with 

 regard to the time of sowing, and on the introduction of fallow 

 crops, instead of wasteful fallows, and on the hoeing both of 

 beans and turnips. In the year succeeding, he published that 

 well-known work, the ** Farmers Calendar," which has passed 

 through ten editions ; at the same time he wrote " Proposals to 

 the Legislature for numbering the People ;" a third edition of his 

 " Farmer's Letters," also appeared, with an additional volume, 

 in which he shews the advantages which would accrue to the 

 great landed proprietors, by improving their estates, and he 

 observes, that in this manner they might so extend their in- 

 comes, as to render it unnecessary for them to make any appli- 

 cation to the ministry for a place, or to the city for a wife. 

 In 1773, he was elected Chairman of the Committee of Agri- 

 culture, in the Society of Arts, and he first proposed their 

 publishing an annual volume of Transactions, a plan which was 

 adopted in 1783 ; in this year he also published a third edition 

 of the " Southern Tour," " Political Essays on the present State 

 of the British Empire," and " Observations on the present State 

 of the Waste Lands." In this latter essay, he suggested a 

 a plan, as simple as it was original, that would enable a very 

 moderate capital to improve very extensive tracts of waste. 

 Without entering into any details, it may be observed, that the 

 leading principle developed in this treatise, was to form, every 

 year, after the first four or five, a farm of just that size which 

 would let the most readily in the neighbourhood, and when 

 such farm had been finished and let, to sell it, and apply the 

 product of such sale to the progress of the improvement. 



Finding at this time that his income was barely sufficient to 

 meet his expenditure, he engaged to report the Parliamentary 

 Debates for the Morning Post, this he continued to perform for 

 several years ; and after the labours of the week, he walked 

 every Saturday evening to his farm, a distance of seventeen 

 miles from London, from which he as regularly returned every 



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