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is lefs profitable; for the expence is often 

 more than the whole value of the crop. 



As there is fo much grafs all around 

 Glafgow, Hamilton, Maims, Dunlop, &c. 

 if the gentlemen and farmers there, and 

 in the different fhires, would break up all 

 their old grafs, they would not only have 

 much more grafs and corns than at prefent, 

 but very large quantities of flax of the beft 

 kind, by following the plan propofed ; and 

 not only in that part of the country, but over 

 all Britain, wherever the fituation is fimilar. 

 And this fo far from hurting any part of the 

 country, would greatly improve the whole ; 

 as one acre fown after this manner would pro- 

 duce as much fine flax as four or fix will do, 

 in the ordinary way of fowing and drefling. 



The flax of the growth in the weft fells, in 

 the Glafgow market, from fourteen fhillings 

 to one pound ten {hillings per ftone, each 

 ftone 22 Ib. Eiiglifh, according to the fine- 

 nefs. I have had myfelf forty ftones upon 

 each acre. But ground dreffed in the man- 

 ner propofed may reafonably be fuppofed to 

 produce a weighty crop in ordinary feafons, 

 and with more certainty, and lefs expence 

 for weeding, not being fo liable to be affect- 

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