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a"n abundant produce of the crop which fuc- 

 ceeds it. 



If, taking the advantage of this prodigality 

 'of the foil y the hufbandrhan keeps cropping it 

 year after year with corn ; and, when it will 

 no longer anfwer his unreafonable expecta- 

 tions, lays it down to grafs, it is no won- 

 der that it Ihould be unproductive : for hav- 

 ing laviftied all its riches on an ungrateful 

 occupier, it is of courfe reduced to extreme 

 poverty. 



On the contrary, if, after a crop of pota- 

 toes, well dunged for, only one or two crops of 

 corn be taken, and the land laid down to 

 grafs, while yet in aftate of fertility, the potatoe 

 crop is, to vulgar appearance at lead, friend- 

 ly to the crops which fucceed it. 



Hence it follows, that land which has beeri 

 cropped with potatoes ftiould prefently after- 

 wards be laid down to grafs or fhoUld be 

 timely repknijhed with 2 quantity of manure 

 proportioned to the degree of exhaujlion it has 

 undergone. 



GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. The value of 

 POTATOES as a fallow crop, and as an article 

 of food fir cattle compared with TURNERS and 



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