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herbage for laying their lands down to meadcuw, bvit alio 

 as a part of their arable fyftem; experience teaching tVfn^ 

 that ttie cultivation of it, is one of the b.eit courfes thatch 

 be puri'ued for preparing land for the raihng wheat. 



Tne introduction and general ufe of this crop, would, I 

 am convinced, be equally beneficial to this country ; to the, 

 circuinltances of wiiich it appears every way perfectly 

 adapted. 



It is a pofition, which I conceive will be.univerfally af- 

 fented to, that this province can never become rich or 

 flourifhing, until its inhabitants can accomplifh the raif- 

 ing of their own bread corn ; and to this great objed, the 

 views of all, who wiih the profperity of the country, and 

 particularly thofe v/ho are employed in cuhivating its 

 lands, fhould be invariably direcled. 



The caufes of the prefent deficiency are not to be fought 

 in the climate and foil of the country, but may be eafily 

 dilcovered in the injudicious and improper management 

 of the inhabitants. The reafon that more wheat is not 

 raifed in this province, is, that more land is not prepared 

 for that grain ; and it is a fa6t well known to thofe who 

 are acquainted with the general practice, that much wheat 

 is fown without any previous preparation of the land ; 

 the crops being fuch as might be expected from fuch 

 management. 



The complaints made againft this country, asunfavour- 

 tibie for wheat, are founded in ignorance or prejudice ; the 

 crops of that grain in many parts of it palpably contraditl-.- 

 ing fuch allertions, as does the judgment of men, who 

 have ha-d experience in agriculture in other countries as 

 well as this. The chief real natural difavantage that the 

 province labours under, is, the iliortnefs of the ieafaa for 

 }>erforming the feveral works of agriculture ; this circum- 

 ilance may forbid the ufe of that exteniive tillage which 

 is pracitifed under more favourable climates, but does by 

 no means extend to prevent every farmer from raifing his 

 own bread and a furplus for fale ; the aggregate of which 

 furplus will form a fund not only for the fupply of thofe 



who 



