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this time made it a rule to bring up all his 

 calves ; he kept increafmg his flock of fheep 

 annually, by faving the beft lambs, and his 

 fwine multiplied in proportion to his crops. 

 The young cattle he came in with were now 

 worked, and he made it a rule to work all 

 as faft as they came to a fize and ftrength 

 iufficient. The only products he could 

 jcarry to market yst, were the greatefl part 

 of the corn he raifed, fome fat hogs, his 

 wool, and a little cheefe, but no great mat- 

 ter. However, as his products increafed 

 with his expences, he was animated to con- 

 tinue his endeavours. The fourth year he 

 inclofed a piece of forty acres, which hs 

 {owed with oats ; the thirty acres he fowed 

 to oats alfo ; the twenty acres he cropped 

 with rye ; and the fifty, which was his 

 firft undertaking, was under clover. This 

 latter crop did not take well; the feed came 

 up, but the produce was poor; yet he 

 mowed it, and the whole piece did not yield 

 him more than fifteen loads of hay; the af- 

 ter-grafs was of good fervice to his working 

 oxen. His feventy acres of oats yielded at 

 the riite of two quarters an acre : the rye he 

 reckoned a good crop, vi/:. two quarts 



acre. 



