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give a great verdure to their fields at fome feafons ; but this 

 is only an apparent advantage, which deceives fuperficial 

 obfervers, while it is attended with real inconveniencies : 

 Firfl, the grafs itfelf is by that circumflance rendered lefs 

 nutritious, as is well known by every farmer : Second, while 

 the hay is lighter, it is got in at more expence than ours, 

 which is made at the drieft feafon of the year — In our crops 

 of grain we enjoy fimilar advantages ; their harvefts are 

 frequently wet, while nine years in ten ours is got in without 

 the leafl obftruftion from rain — ^The produce would alfo, I 

 am well fatisfied, be greater here than in England on highly 

 cultivated foils, fmce it is well known that the ftrength of the 

 ftraw depends upon the drynefs of the feafon. In a moift 

 climate, therefore, without fufficient fun to harden the ftraw, 

 heavy crops mufl: be very often injured by lodging— efpecially 

 if we take into confideration, that high winds are much more 

 ufual in Great Britain than here — Blight and mildew are 

 effects of a moift climate ; thefe are feldom and partially 

 known in this State^ prevailing only in particular diftrifts in 

 extraordinary feafons. In Britain it often happens, that wet 

 weather, when the wheat is in bloffom, affeds all the wheat 

 hi the kingdom, many parts of which, on this account, do 

 not pretend to raife it. 



If vegetation is flower in Britain than here, and if the grafs 

 is alfo lefs nutritious, it muft follow, that with the Dame 



