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crop that does not equally exhauft, fuch as 

 graffes. By their culture you are able to 

 keep what cattle you pleafe. Thefe cattle 

 yield plenty of dung, which, fpread upon 

 the land, enable it to go through that fy- 

 ftem of management, which you find beft 

 adapted for profit. It has been upon this 

 principle that I have gained good crops, 

 and faave found the laft as good as the firft : 

 providing plenty of food for cattle enables 

 you to keep plenty of cattle : thefe give you 

 plenty of dung ; that dung great frefh crops 

 for cattle. Thus, the more cattle you keep, 

 mofl certainly the more you may keep. 

 But this is not the greateft point : all this 

 land, thus dunged, by and for cattle, is 

 immediately followed by corn, the crops of 

 which are alfo proportioned to the artificial 

 fertility : hence you infure yourfelf good 

 corn crops, which are of great confequencc. 

 The expences on corn run as high on poor 

 crops as on good ones ; therefore, by making 

 one acre produce as much as two, you 

 greatly more than double the advantage; 

 all which can only be done by plenty of 

 cattle, which, in well cultivated countries, 

 muft be kept in numbers, or elfc fuch 

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