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Ing the best system. A large quantity of 

 good meadow will yield much hay. It is 

 a sin against good husbandry to sell off the 

 hay of a farm. Numbers of cattle well fed 

 and well littered, give the manure requisite 

 for invigorating the soil : but numbers of 

 cattle cannot be kept in good condition, 

 through the year, unless clover or grass as 

 well as hay abound. The summer food 

 and that of the winter are to bear a due 

 proportion to each other. 



It is reasonable to expect that the better 

 courses, N VI. VII. VIII. and IX. will 

 yield, by the acre, more of every article of 

 produce than the inferior course, N V. 

 But they are here stated alike. Of the 

 several sorts of white beans I have only 

 cultivated the white dwarf or bush bean in 

 my fields, in rows eighteen inches apart. 

 They considerably shaded the ground, but 

 not so fully as I wished. I therefore in- 

 tended to have tried white beans that would 

 run and shelter the ground entirely, after 

 being Jiorse-hoed with a shim repeatedly, 



