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Another trad of country may be totally 

 deficient in pafturage, from the drynefs of 

 the foil, or from other caufes : Sainfoine 

 and lucerne are in iuch, and rtlimerous 

 other cafes, to be ufed to prodigious be- 

 nefit ; - but the common farmer will have 

 nothing to fay to either of them, if not 

 common among his brethren. Thefe 

 inftances might be multiplied to infinity ; 

 and certainly form a very eonfiderable 

 weight in the gentleman's fcale* 



That judgment is neceflary in fuch in- 

 troductions, 1 moft readily agree : a gentle^ 

 man animated with reading books of huf- 

 bandry may form vifionary ideas of digging 

 in more fertile mines than thofe of Peru or 

 Mexico, if he does but purfiie the directions 

 of fome writers : he may then fow car- 

 rots in a clay-foil, and plant cabbages on a 

 fandy gravel : he may introduce fainfoine 

 on weeping clays, and lucerne in bogs: 

 there is no doubt thefe blunders may be 

 made ; but thefe are not thofe \vhich are moft 

 to be feared. 



In the fame page, perhaps, in which he 



finds carrots, lucerne, clover or turnips, 



fenfibly recommended, he may alfo find as 



T a warm 



