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of them. So mean are the productions 

 of the three and four field divisions, when 

 maize has been continued a crop, that they 

 will not allow of being rated by the acre 

 near so high as the present statements allow 

 to either mode of the English husbandry, 

 or, as we may believe, to the American 

 husbandry, when it shall be practised ac- 

 cording to the improved principles of crop- 

 ping, with or without maize. Two ex- 

 hausting corn-crops, perpetually taken from 

 three or four fields, after some years, will 

 scarcely admit of eight bushels of wheat an 

 acre on common land, one year with an- 

 other: but, suppose, 



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ioo a. maize, at 12 bushels^ 1200 

 100 - wheat, - 8 - - - 800 

 ioo - lay or mean pasture, - .... 



300 a, in three fields, - * - 2000 bs. 



