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Mr. Boadley's ideas of meliorating crops 

 very much agree with my own: could these 

 crops be obtained in America, like all other 

 countries, they would be a great advantage 

 to the fertility of the soil ; but the English 

 cultivation and rotation of crops on land 

 cannot be adopted in America. The best 

 meliorating crops I ever saw grow in that 

 country, to any large extent, are Indian 

 corn and tobacco, where the land is fertile^ 

 enough for them ; as turnip crop^ which 

 are the making of most of the tillage 

 lands in England, cannot be rai&ed to ad- 

 vantage in America. The winter there is 

 so very severe, that turnips, rape, cabbages, 

 winter-vetches, &c. are totally out of the 

 question ; therefore I conclude, from the 

 nature of the soil and climate, the sort of 

 cropping now made use of to be the best. 

 I approve of the management of the four 

 fields mentioned by Mr. Boadley ; I think 

 it proper : Indian corn as a preparation for, 

 wheat, rye, barley, or oats ; and then two 

 years' laying out (as he calls it) waste, puts 



