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being not so productive as the crops in 

 England, is want of management : but they 

 are highly mistaken ; it is their soil and 

 climate — and nothing will make them so 

 productive. 



After seeing the Doctor's meadows*, 

 horses, and cattle, I returned to Philadel- 

 phia : and in a few days set off for Balti- 

 more. In my way I now viewed the 

 grazing-farm of Mr. Holmes, which had 

 been the original object of my present long 

 journey ; but to my great surprise I found 

 not a green herb or plant upon it. This 

 was in the latter end of March. There was 

 some dead grass, as white as stubble ; what 

 is called crab-grass : it chiefly springs up in 

 the month of July, and August, and will 

 eat pretty well when young, but will not 

 make hay. The roots die every winter, 

 and it grows up fresh every summer from 

 the seed. About July or August they have 

 another grass, something like it, they call 

 fox-tail ; which is good for nothing at any 



* They were irrigated. 



