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ly situated ; and agriculture, advanced by a grow- 
ing demand for the produce of well cultivated lands, 
will be improved far beyond what at present may be 
supposed pofsible. 
_ J am a farmer upon a small scale, having not 
more than thirty acres under the plough, and about 
sixty acres of upland: of lowlands I received seven~ 
teen acres in a very waste condition, covered with 
broom, or sanded by the invasion of river water. 
These seventeen acres were rated at four guineas. 
I fenced it against invasion of water at a very small 
charge; and ever since for three years past, I can 
command twelve or thirteen returns of corn upon it, 
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without any barren fallows ; and have sold twenty — 
pounds per acre of potatoe produce from it, to the 
adjoining villagers, at four fhillings the Lothian boll. 
I have thirteen acres in garden crops, managed 
with the plough, four in turnip, three roods in field 
carrot, two roods in buckwheat, three acres in pota- 
toes, an acre in cabbage, three acres in beans, all by — 
the drill ; and after all these I fhall have wheat and 
barley. 
I can venture to say that I fhall have more than 
thirty returns from my beans, and that my other 
crops are proportionably abundant. 
Let Virgil’s maxim of the exiguum colito be ob- 
served, and the best modes of management, guided 
by experience, be followed, and the produce of fine 
natural lands, even in our poor country, will be 
found to surpafs our most sanguine expectations, 
and agriculture keep pace with any degree of popu- 
lation that our manufacturing system can create, 
