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The medium produce of these fields 

 might be more than is above stated. But 

 it is well to suppose the quantity they pro- 

 duce per acre is as in this and the follow- 

 ing statements : nor is it material what 

 the quantity is, when how much the 

 English soil or how much the American 

 gives, is not under consideration. 



English new Rotation of Crops. 



The better course of husbandry now 

 well experienced and approved of in Eng- 

 land is founded on these principles : to 

 fallow, and to have growing on the fallow 

 while it is yet under the plough or hoe, a 

 shading and ameliorating crop ; never to 

 sow any sort of corn immediately after 

 corn of any kind ; to sow clover on every 

 field of grain ; and with a course of well- 

 chosen crops and the shaded fallows, pre- 

 vent the soil from resting, hardening, and 

 running into weeds and common grasses. 

 Thus entire farms are continued in a con- 

 stant rotation under five to six or eight 



