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<s Fleg." He very obligingly fhewed me his 106. 



farm, and favoured me with a recital of his FLEG HUS- 

 BANDRY. 

 practice. 



The Fleg farmers, it is true, get amazing 

 crops ; they reckon from ten to twelve coomb 

 of wheat, and fifteen to twenty coomb of oatSj 

 an acre, no very extraordinary produce : but 

 when we learn that crops like thefe are pro- 

 duced from the fucccflion, or from any ma* 

 nagement nearly refembling the fucceffion, of 

 wheat, barley, clover, wheat, oats, wheat; 

 every pcrfon converfant in farming muft ex- 

 claim, that the foil which will bear fuch treat- 

 ment is extraordinary indeed ; more efpecially 

 when he is told, that the crop of wheat which 

 follows the oats is generally better than that 

 which preceded them j the oat-crop being 

 thrown in as a damper of the raging fertility 

 of the foil. 



Mr. Ferrier, who is a very fcnfible, judicious, 

 plain farmer (though formerly a failor) having 

 obferved that wheat after clover, or a fumrner 

 fallow, became too rank to ftand, and ran too 

 much to ft raw to yield a large produce of grain, 

 ingenioufly contrived this intervening crop of 

 oats, in order to correct the over-abundant fer- 

 tility or ranknefs of the foil ; and in this his 



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