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ON HEAVY LAND. 



isf. Beans on the ley. 



2d. Spring fallow, well manured, and cabbages *. 



3cL Oats and artificial grasses. 



Then remain as before. 



The foregoing courses of cropping, cannot possibly injure the 

 land) and by them fallowing is excluded, which (unless in particu- 

 lar instances, such as great foulness, or dearth of manure) I do not 

 think necessary. 



5th. Enlarge the upland corn farms \ erect proper buildings and con-ve- 

 niencies for the shelter of the cattle in the winter months, thereby in- 

 citing substantial, and ivcll informed farmers, of more enlightened 

 countries, to settle upon them. 



I have before stated the advantages of large corn farms, build- 

 ings, &c. and shall therefore only add, that nothing so much con- 

 tributes to the progress of good husbandry, as example. One good 

 farmerin a parish (particularly if he take no pains to make prose- 

 lytes) will in a few years convert all the rest; the superiority of 

 his crops, the advancing fertility of his land, the thriving state of 

 his cattle, the abundance of manure, all plead daily in favor of 

 his system, and will in the end, produce conviction, even in the 

 most bigoted mind. 



I know no method by which general improvement can be more 

 promoted, than by dispersing the farmers of those counties, whose 

 practices are held in the highest estimation, among those parts of 

 the kingdom, on which the light of good husbandry has never 



* The cultivation of cabbages on heavy land cannot be too strongly recommended. 

 It puts the clay land farmer on a level, with his neighbours occupying "light land , 

 and as a farther encouragement, I can assert, from experiments repeatedly made, 

 that tivo tons of cabbages are equal to tbret of turnips, that they are less subject 

 to injury from frost, and that the expences of cultivation, compared with turnips, 

 do not exceed five shillings per acre. 



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