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 land. When let on leafe, thofe that are 

 not watered are not rented at more than 

 from 8s. to 12$. an acre; but many that are 

 watered are fo much fought after, that they 

 let very high, even to 305. an acre, though 

 that is not common. Great improvements 

 might be made in watering other meadowy 

 yet, from the general poverty of the coun- 

 try, little of this fort is done. 



The culture of artificial grafTes is not near 

 fo much purfued as it ought to be. M. Mo- 

 ralt aflured me, that lucern is one of the 

 mod beneficial articles of the husbandry of 

 this province. The heat of the climate 

 prevents their having any meadows of con- 

 fequence beyond thofe which are watered ; 

 others yield a very infignincant produce : 

 but lucern agrees well with the climate, 

 and, when properly managed, yields four 

 or five full crops in a year, each crop as 

 much in quantity as a good ordinary mea- 

 dow that is watered. It lafts twenty years, 

 and they reckon it to yield a produce of 

 from 405. to 3!. an acre, of which fo little 

 is the expence of management, that the nett 

 profit amounts to from 2os. to 303. which 

 exceeds any of the bed corn lands. They 



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