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tried many experiments. He took great 

 pains to inform me of every thing that 

 could be useful ; as I intended to publish a 

 supplement tp the work I had printed at 

 that time, He introduced me to many 

 very respectable farmers : for that part of 

 America is cultivated in a farming style ; 

 and if it was not so unhealthy, I would 

 rather live there than any where else in 

 America, at least of all that I saw. They 

 are in general what may be termed real 

 farmers ; many of them growing from one 

 tp two hundred acres of wheat, and the like 

 quantity of Indian corn. Their system of 

 cultivation is this : If the farm consists of 

 four hundred acres, there are always two 

 hundred lying to what they call resting 

 (that is, without a crop) for two years ; 

 then they plant it with Indian corn, which 

 is a preparation for wheat ; and then it lies 

 again two years tp rest. Mr. Singleton 

 had three farms. On his home-farm he 

 had above one hundred acres of wheat, 

 from which, he informed me, he did not 



