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and fowed their wheat. In this method he 

 has three advantages : firft, the produce of 

 the two mowings is better than the crop of 

 barley or oats : fecondly, he gets his wheat 

 on one, inftead cf three ploughings : and, 

 thirdly,, his crop is near double to what it 

 is in the common way. But this mull: be 

 practifed ooly once in fix years. The fame 

 farmer, finding the advantages of multiply- 

 ing his cattle, notwithstanding the taille, 

 fowed lucern upon a part of his field-land, 

 giving up every third year's produce of it to 

 his neighbours to mare with him, for the 

 fake of the great produce and profit of the 

 other two- Both thefe inftances mew much 

 penetration, and a great removal from that 

 bigotted . attention to cuftom, which is fo 

 common among the lower clafles in the 

 country. 



Hemp and flax are fown only in the 

 richeft and deepeft lands ; the, quantity is not 

 confiderable : it is not reckoned a profitable 

 culture; a good acre of hemp feldom 

 amounts to above 4!, and the expences are 

 confiderable. 



The woods are extenfive, and, in general, 

 pretty well managed, being kept in regular 



cuttings. 



