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man, but the scanty crop he has to cradle, 

 I mowed my oats and barley, having no 

 cradles : they would not make a swath ; 

 therefore, in the straggled manner they fell, 

 they cost as much time and labour in ga- 

 thering as they were worth. I am of an 

 opinion that many of the English waggons 

 and waggoners would carry the produce of 

 ten acres upon one waggon : and the reader 

 may easily conceive this to be true ; fey: 

 where there is but one bushel per acre, it is 

 only ten bushels of wheat on the waggon. 



Now, from this sort of cropping, accord- 

 ing to my calculation of making manure, it 

 will take ten acres or more to make two 

 loads of it: therefore one hundred acres give 

 only twenty loads, which will only manure 

 two acres of the hundred ; so that, from 

 such produce, it will be fifty years before 

 the whole field could be got dunged. Then 

 the Indian corn crop being much more bulky 

 and we will state one load of dung for 

 one acre of corn there would be more 

 manure, supposing the corn-stalks were cut 



