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of wheat will, at any time, tame it pretty suffi 

 ciently. 



154. Very much, in my opinion, do those 

 mistake the matter, who strive to get a great 

 breadth of land, with the idea, that, when they 

 have tried one field, they can let it lie, and go 

 to another. It is better to have one acre of 

 good crop, than two of bad or indifferent. If 

 the one acre can by double the manure and 

 double the labour in tillage, be made to pro 

 duce as much as two other acres, the one acre 

 is preferable, because it requires only half as 

 much fencing 1 and little more than half as much 

 harvesting, as two acres. There is many a ten 

 acres of land near London, that produce more 

 than any common farm of two hundred acres. 

 My garden of three quarters of an acre, pro 

 duced more, in value, last Summer, from June 

 to December, than any ten acres of oat land 

 upon Long Island, though I there saw as fine 

 fields of oats as I ever saw in my life. A heavy 

 crop upon all the ground that I put a plough 

 into is what I should seek, rather than to have 

 a great quantity of land. 



155. The business of carting manure from a 

 distance can, in very few, if any cases, answer 

 a profitable purpose. If any man vyould give 

 me even horse-dung at the stable- door, four 

 miles from my land, I would not accept of it. 



