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up and used in the fold for manure, which 

 is not generally done, but left in the field ; 

 which may be one cause of the Hessian fly: 

 therefore, supposing the wheat crop to 

 make twenty loads of dung, (which is more 

 than any man's one hundred acres of wheat 

 would do in the whole country,) and the 

 hundred acres of Indian corn to yield one 

 hundred loads, that is only one hundred 

 and twenty loads of dung from the most 

 correct process in each year : and I am of 

 an opinion that many of them use fifty loads 

 regularly in the garden ; nor would the 

 garden be worth any thing without such 

 manuring ; therefore there remain only 

 seventy loads. Then they generally raise 

 a few turnips, and some pumpkins, for 

 which we may allow forty of those seventy 

 loads : and there are but thirty loads of 

 dung left to be applied to the four hundred 

 acres of land per year. To allow ten loads 

 to the acre, as we do in England all over 

 the soil, the proportion of land manured 

 would be three acres per year ; so that it 

 would be more than one hundred and 



