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crops of that root, which it yields, are very 

 great, even without any manure; fo that, 

 from an attentive experience, I generally 

 reckoned, that an acre of it, fo planted, 

 would fupport fix cows through the winter 

 with only fmall amftance from ftraw, 

 which is, I think, a proof that the land 

 muft agree well with the root. After the 

 potatoes on this foil, I take barley ; the pro- 

 duce very good, ufually from two quarters 

 and an half, in indifferent years, to four and 

 an half in good ones. I tried rye, wheat, 

 and oats ; but none of them would ever 

 come to any thing on it. After the barley 

 I make it a rule to fow buck- wheat, which 

 rarely fails yielding great produce, from 

 three quarters to five and an half an acre : 

 with the buck-wheat, Flanders trefoil is 

 fown, which yields a good crop for two 

 years, fometimes only for one, and upon 

 this I again plant potatoes. Here, therefore, 

 is my arrangement en this foil; i. Pota- 

 toes, 2. Barley, 3. Buck-wheat, 4. Flan- 

 der's trefoil. And this I find fo uniformly 

 profitable, that I have adhered to it : after 

 two or three rounds of this management, 

 the foil will want manure, and the time for 



