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On notations of Crops. 



dered at ; but, that the same prohibition should be still con- 

 tinued, when the experience of Flanders proves, beyond 

 the possibility of doubt, that flax and hemp may be cultiva- 

 ted once in every five or six years, without diminishing the 

 fertility of the soil ; and, when the farmer can hardly pay 

 his rent, from the burden of rates and taxes, to which he is 

 subjected, and consequently requires every possible encou- 

 ragement, can hardly be rationally accounted for. Every 

 crop should now be raised, that will pay best, at least on the 

 estates of those landlords, who wish to have their lands oc- 

 cupied by thriving tenants. The employment which might 

 be given to the poor, by the cultivation of flax, and the ad- 

 vantage of being rendered independent of foreign nations 

 for naval stores, by the raising of hemp, are separate consi- 

 derations. 



The crops usually raised on the different soils in Great 

 Britain, at present, are as follow. 



Crops cultivated on the different Soils in Great Britain. 



And on all these soils, clover and other grasses, are, in a 

 greater or less degree, periodically cultivated. 



