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England than in America, where lands are cheap, and the 

 farmers' capitals too fmall for expenfive improvements : all I 

 mean to fhew is, that this country has natural advantages in 

 its foil and climate over Britain, and to encourage our farmers 

 to hope, that whenever their circumftances ihall enable them 

 to circulate their artificial improvements, that agriculture 

 will be carried to a much higher pitch here than in Britain : 

 One of the cheapefl and moft obvious improvements, and to 

 which England is more indebted than to any other, is the 

 fowing of grafs feeds, and particularly clover, and putting in 

 their wheat upon a clover clay inflead of an expenfive fallow. 

 To this permit me to add another from my own experience, 

 which is, the pra£licability of raifing lucerne as eafy here as 

 in any part of the world : a plant which as much exceeds 

 red clover, as the red does the common white ; but which 

 the want of fun, and the moifl xlimate of England generating 

 an infinity of weeds, prevents their cultivating to any advantage 

 — to thefe phyfical, every man's reflections will add thofe 

 moral advantages that arife from the enjoyment of freedom 

 under the happiefl of conilitutions ; the equality of our 

 fortunes, which facilitates our mutual interefls ; and the refped: 

 in which Agriculture is held by thofe who govern and dired 

 our affairs ; where the Hero, the Patriot, the Statefman, 

 Washington, does not difdain to guide, who can refufe to 

 ?^enerate the Plough ? 



