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of twenty-five years after liming they were as rich as 

 the firfl day. Marfhall, in his Rural (Economy of the 

 Midland Counties, fpeaking of the Leicefler manage- 

 ment in breaking up their grafs-grounds, exprefTes 

 himfelf thus : u If fallowing can be difpenfed with in 

 any cafe, it may be under the management of this dif- 

 trift, where only three arable crops are taken, before 

 the land be laid down again to grafs." In another 

 place he fays, " What a new fyflem of hulbandry is 

 this ; at firfl: fight flovenly in the extreme ; yet it is 

 poffible that, before I have been twelve months longer 

 in this diflrift, I may conceive it to be for lands, -which 

 are equally productive of grafs and corn, an eligible 

 fyflem of management." What would Mr. Marshall 

 fay of our mode ? Ten or more crops following. The 

 labour attending this plan is fmall, fix ploiightngs in 

 all ; one for oats, two for wheat, three for barley. 

 The great objection to this fyflem is, the fear of weeds, 

 which may intrude from three fucceffive corn crops i 

 but, if the land has been free from them in the begin- 

 ning, I fhould think, by particular attention in weeding 

 the fecond crop, and by a complete winter fallow for 

 the third, this evil might be avoided. To carry* this 

 plan into execution with effect, that part of the farm, 

 on which it is to be praclifed, fhould be divided into 

 equal fields, as nearly of the fame quality as poffible ; 

 for on this circumflance a good deal depends, as light 

 laud is much more liable to weeds than, heavy. I fhall 



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