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After fome years trial of potatoes, and 

 often exprefTing a defire of introducing fome 

 other crop befides them on the peat land, 

 he was told, that it was common in Peri- 

 gord to plant cabbages in fuch land. He 

 took the hint at once, and tried an acre. 

 Thefe fucceeded fo well, that he had feveral 

 acres the next year ; and the fuccefs conti- 

 nuing, he has regularly had a field of them. 

 I afked if they were better for cattle than 

 potatoes ? he replied, Not fo good ; but he 

 had found, that potatoes declined in their 

 produce, and the roots grew of a hard na- 

 ture, from growing feveral years on the 

 fame ground , whereas nothing of that fort 

 is obfervable, if a crop of cabbages is planted 

 between, fo as not to let the potatoes come 

 more than two years together in fucceffion. 

 But finding, in this fy Item, that, as he went 

 on, draining and improving, his quantity of 

 cabbages and potatoes was fo great, that 

 he could not multiply his cattle quick 

 enough for them, nor afford the neceilary 

 expcnces, he determined to convert thai 

 which had been longeft improved into mea- 

 dow, and, with that view, lowed feveral 

 forts of feeds recommended by the farmers 



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