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1 06. fuperiority of management ffcems principally to 



i-ALuJw. confi(h He feems to c^ nflder a fiimther fallow- 

 as the moft dangerous procefs that can occur 

 upon a farm j for the wheat crop which fiicceecU 

 it he has found invariably fpoilt through an 

 over-ranknefs ; and what appears much more 

 extraordinary, the barley crop which follows 

 trie wheat is in this cafe generally tod fmall 

 owing, as Mr. F. fuppofes, to the wheat having 

 too much impoverifhed the foil : this however 

 does not accord with the practice of wheat a 

 oats, wheat. I have no doubt of Mr. F.'s veraci- 

 ty, or of the fad:, but apprehend it is produced 

 by fome other caufe than the poverty or exhauf- 

 tion of the foil. 



JFLEG SOIL. Mr. Ferrier's foil is principally a rich dark- 



coloured loam> except one piece or two, which 

 are of a more fandy nature. A piece near his 

 houfe is pecularly fertile : he never knew it to 

 fail producing a valuable crop. A recently- 

 made ditch gave mean opportunity of examin- 

 ing it. It is one uniform mafs of rich black 

 loam, for more than two feet deep ; and under 

 this lies a brick earth; a foil, this, capable of 

 producing madder, woad, hemp, or any other 

 vegetable of our climate which requires a rich 

 deep foil. The principal part of his eftate, 



how- 



