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\fh\) are noi employed in the cultivation of lands, tut alfo 

 for exportation, which I cannot relinquifh the hope of 

 feeing tp-^ce p\^e from this country. 



^s«-iie fl>cJrtners of our feafon may prevent us from 

 av7i"ling pdrfelves of many modes of preparing our lands, 

 »/hich ^re pra6lired under different climates, we fliould 

 ungueftionably be more attentive to theufeof thofe ivhich 

 zy^ peculiarly adapted to our own ; and the cultivation of 

 plover appears to me one of the mod important of thele^ 

 not at prefent in ufe. 



We cannot advantngeoufly cultivate turnips (one of the 

 great ground works of modern hufbindry in England) to 

 any confiderable extent, becaufe our climate will not allow 

 of our feeding them through the winter, and the labour 

 of getting them up and itoring them, would make them 

 too expenlive ; but no fuch objeQion lies to the ufe of 

 clover, which may without lofs of time, or additional ex- 

 penfe (except the feed) follow our hoeing crops with the 

 wheat, which ufually fucceeds them, and would by lying 

 two years in the ground, prepare it in the mod perfefcS 

 manner for another crop of that grain, producing in the 

 mean time moft beneficial returns for the land it occupies. 

 By the ufual mode of management, wheat is procured but 

 once, after a perfeft manuring with potatoes, or other 

 hoed crops (unlefs by the execrable method of (owing it 

 two feafons fuccelBvely) it being ufually followed by two 

 crops of oats, which diveft the fail of all its richnefs • thi$ 

 land is then turned out to grafs, producing little or nothf 

 ing but weeds until time has reftored it to fertility, being 

 unfit for the produ6lion of wheat, without another ma- 

 nuring, or laying a great length of time in paflure ; where- 

 as, by fowing clover feed with the wheat, following a hoed 

 crop, the land is made to produce two valuable crops of 

 hay and grafs, and is rendered in the highefl; degree fit for 

 the reception of wheat ; for let the ground be in any de- 

 gree rich, on which clover is fown, the deep penetrating 

 roots and long iliadowy tops of this plant are lure to m- 

 creafe its richnefs, and bring it to that mellow flate, fo fa- 

 vourable to the growth of that grain. 



On the whole, I moft earnefliy recommend to my broth- 

 er farmers the ufe of this plant, the cultivation of which 

 Will fo much increafe the quantity of their wheat lands. 



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