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this gentleman is remarkable. He practices 

 two diftinct modes of culture ; the common 

 hufbandry of the country, and another, 

 which is either his own, or a great im- 

 provement, that of potatoes in peat land for 

 hogs in union with lucern. The latter of 

 thefe methods he finds incomparably more 

 profitable than the former. Now, in the 

 introduction of the new huibandry, which 

 object mould he fix on for a comparifon ? 

 that which is very unprofitable and bad, or 

 that which is highly profitable and excel- 

 lent ? Surely, the latter 3 for his exceeding 

 the former, is doing nothing ; he has ex- 

 ceeded it already, and why introduce a mode 

 becaufe of its beino: more beneficial than 



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another by a few degrees, at the very time 

 that a third method is difcovered far beyond 

 either of them. If M. Rocquelou thought 

 the lands upon which he drills worth cul- 

 tivating, furely he fliould have tried how 

 far he might have extended his other pro- 

 fitable hufbandry to them, of potatoes, cab- 

 bages, and Jucern; and, if they did not 

 fucceed equally well as on the peat land, 

 furely he might try what they would yield 

 in fainfoine, which he h in iccn culti\ 

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