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is no argument againft annual leys. If the 

 land be clean when the clover-feed is 'Town, 

 it will as foon breed fugar-canes as quicks. 



In a grafsland country, however, clover 

 leys are lefs wanted than tillage ; and in the 

 cooler, better-foiled parts of the Vale they 

 may, perhaps without much impropriety, be 

 difpenfed with. But on the drier thin-foiled 

 lands which lie upon the marginal heights, 

 temporary leys would be found far preferable 

 to the unproductive " meadows" which now 

 occupy a confiderable part of their furface. 

 The Norfolk fyftem of hufbandry appears to 

 me to be fingularly well adapted to the lands 

 of the " high towns;" the more productive 

 parts of which ought not, in my opinion, to 

 be permitted to bear more than two crops of 

 corn, nor two crops of grafs, fucceffively. 



II. PERENNIAL LEYS. Formerly, in this as 

 in other Diftricts, arable land was laid to grafs 

 by the mere ceifation of plowing. When 

 land refufed to produce corn any longer, it 

 \vas permitted to lie down to reft ; or, in 

 fiber words, to lie wafte. For feveral years 

 it produced nothing but weeds ; and thefe, 

 of courie, of the leaneft kind. The wild 



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