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To state then once more, as plainly as I can, the 

 plan I wish you to take up : it is this, THAT YOU 

 SHOULD SOW WITH CLOVER AND TURNIPS A REASON- 

 ABLE PART OF THE LAND THAT YOU NOW LEAVE AS 

 GRAZING. I do not ask a large quantity, unless here- 

 after you shall think it most profitable for you to do 

 so. I say that you will get, at the very least, double 

 the weight of food for your cows and horses, from this 

 quantity of land if sown with clover and turnips, that 

 you now get from it as grazing ; and therefore that you 

 will be able to keep double the number of cows, and make 

 twice the quantity of manure that you now make ; and 

 that this manure will give you much better crops of 

 potatoes and wheat and oats, than you now get ; and 

 thus that you will be much better off. I believe, indeed, 

 that you will get much more than double the weight of 

 food from clover and turnips, that you now do from 

 grazing, and so will have much more than double the 

 quantity of manure ; but I am contented to take it 

 that it will only double the weight of food and manure : 

 of this I am quite sure; and surely if it only does this, 

 it will be a great benefit to any farmer. 



But some of you will say, " We think clover very 

 good sowing, but it is the turnips we do not like." I 

 do not wonder at you liking clover ; it is indeed a 

 most excellent crop, and admirably suited to your land 

 and climate. I have never in England seen such fine 

 clover as I have seen with some of you. The weight 

 of it you can get from two cuttings, if compared with 

 the weight of grass you could get from the same field 

 sown with the best hay-seeds in the country, will be 

 found very much greater. The clover-seed, besides, 

 does not cost so much as hay-seed. Nine pounds of 



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