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sd 8000 ; though in general the latter year was lefs fa- 

 vorable. This crop was fufficient to enable him to fell 

 one hundred muids, after paying his tythes and other 

 taxes, and providing for the fubfiflence of his family.— 

 His llables are well furnifhed alfo with cattle ; for 

 while liis predecefTors had only eight horfes and four 

 head of horned cattle ; he has five horfes and twenty- 

 two head of horned cattle ; and he propofcs augment- 

 ing the number, fince he fees a variety of improvement! ^ 

 ftill to be accomplifhed. 



His abundant harvefts produced by his improvements^ 

 naturally furnifhed a ftill farther means of augmenting 

 them, by an increafe in his quantity of flraw, fo pre- 

 cious for his dung-heap ; his crops and his dung-heaps 

 thus mutually increafing ; each of them powerfully resiEV- 

 ing upon the other* This fuecefs, the reward of zeal the 

 moft active and intelligent, charmed the republic of 

 which he was the tenant ; and the governm.ent in con- 

 iequence favored him in his plan for eretSling new acd 

 large refer voirs, wherein to prepare his liquid ma- 

 nure. 



The attention bf Kliyogg to his fields did not pre- 

 vent his giving attention to his meadows; which in like 

 manner he endeavored as much as poffible to improve, 

 in order to be able gradually to increafe the number of 

 his live flock. — -Thcle meadows were of two kinds ; 

 the dry^ which could only be aided by tlie manure from 

 bis cattle, efpecially in the form cf liquid manure ', and 

 the moi/Iy which were by much the moft numerous, and 

 ^hich he defigned to affift by managing the water with 

 judgment. — For this latter purpofe, he began by dig- 

 ging drain-sto carry away the flagnant water ; and, aa 

 he obferved that the river, though it fiowly wandered 

 along his meadows, had ftill fall enough to allow hint 

 to take up its water where it entered his grounds, ht' 

 profited by the circumftance to make regular cuts from 

 it ; though the water was not proper for producing grafs 



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