oroved. Many foils, barren at prefent, 

 when properly fummer fallowed, drained , 

 and then limed and dunged, will produce 

 crops equally good with the beft improved 

 farms, fometimes much better. But it mufl 

 be owned, that poor land requires a greater 

 quantity of both lime and dung than the rich 

 land which has been long in tillage. But to 

 make poor land rich is anfwering the very 

 end of the premiums. 



If any farmer gains the premium, he can 

 very well afford to lay out L. 4, or L. 5, ex- 

 traordinary upon each acre, as the profit is 

 not confined to one crop, but many fucceed- 

 ing ones. W!iat is to hinder the farmer, if 

 he chufes, firft to trench ten acres with the 

 ipade or plough, and then to fummer-fallow, 

 after which, to give it a large quantity of 

 lime and dung. 



By the fcheme propofed, die firft crop is 

 to be after a fummer-fallow, which will bring 

 every foil more upon a par ; only fome foils 

 require a larger quantity of manure than o- 

 thers : But the manure operates at firft more 

 powerfully upon new ground than old. 



I had the experience of this myfelf. I 

 Y fummer- 



