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CROP, and calls for no other attention than 

 that which the ordinary management of an 

 eftate requires. 



SAINTFOIN LEY. This is a perennial ley ; 

 in the making of which both landlord and 



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tenant are generally interefted. 



The Diftridt under furvey is fingularly fa- 

 vourable to the ftudy of the culture of faint- 

 foin. In fome parts of it, it is cultivated with 

 great profit. In others its culture has been 

 repeatedly attempted without fuccefs. 



The fined faintfoin I have feen grows in 

 the immediate neighbourhood of MALTON. 

 Three tons of hay an acre are faid to have 

 been cut. I have feen crops, which, to ap- 

 pearance, would not afford lefs. 



They*// a dry calcareous loam, from ten to 

 twenty inches deep. The fubfoil a marly 

 rubble, from two to three feet deep -, lying 

 on an unfathomed rock of fofc limeftone^ 

 (See Art. MANURE.) , 



One hundred grains of the cultivated fur- 

 face foil of " Peafy Hill" affords twenty-five 

 grains of calcareous matter. 



One hundred grains of the earthy part of 

 they/wY; among which the plants of faint- 



VoL.II. II foin, 



