tice, of the land not paying any expences 

 (in reafon) of tillage and manure. This 

 farm is excellently managed: In the firft 

 place, it is thrown into the moft advantage- 

 ous of all common courfes for light foils . 

 viz. i. Turnips; 2. barley; 3. clover ; 

 4. wheat. The turnip fallow is ploughed 

 fix times ; and, after that crop, thrice more 

 for the barley: Befides this tillage, the 

 manuring is very confiderable. 732 loads 

 of farm-yard compoft, well mixed toge- 

 ther ; 432 of dung, and 300 of earth, that 

 has laid all the winter under the litter, to 

 catch and retain all the urine of the cattle : 

 this compoft I fuppofe every year to be 

 fpread on the turnip land, being juft 36 

 loads per acre for it ; and a noble drefling 

 it certainly is, and fufficient without affift- 

 ance to keep the whole farm in great heart, 

 as all of it receives this manuring once in 

 four years. But, befides this, we have 80 

 waggon loads of town dung every year; 

 which muft be fuppofed mortar rubbifh, 

 afhes, horfe, cow, and hog dung, and every 

 load probably a compoft of moft of them ; 

 or, in other words, admirable ftuff. Thefe 

 80 loads I fuppofe fpread on the clover land 



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