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at once, without expence, a method of con- 

 verting any of their arable lands to excellent 

 meadow, which would yield that afliftance 

 in Summer which they mod of all wanted, 

 and which before they could only get in 

 Winter. 



" The year following the trefoil Rood, 

 and was as fine as ever ; they, therefore, 

 erected lime-kilns, procured wood, and 

 burnt large quantities of lime, which they 

 fpread over all their improved lands, with 

 a never-failing fuccefs of doing great benefit 

 to the crops that followed it, and, in fuccef- 

 fion, of bringing up the trefoil ; which 

 gave them at once a good tract of very ex- 

 cellent meadows, one of which they ma- 

 nured with all the dung they could raifc 

 from their ftables and penns, and procured 

 a fine crop of hay for a hilly country, of 

 above a load and half an acre. The hiiU thus 

 taken, they came at once into a regular fy- 

 Hem of management, which was to be ar- 

 ranged in the following manner : 



Inclofe Drain. 



Pare and burn. 



I. Cabbages or potatoes, chiefly the latter. 



2. Potatoes 



