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when the clover is ploughed in, it will be followed by 

 pasture oats.*^ 



^ The samples of soils sent by Mr. Young, exhibited the 

 most marked difference. The progress from absolute ster- 

 rility, to rich mould, might be traced by the appearance of 

 colour in the several parcels. I with great pleasure bear tes- 

 timony on the subject of Mr. Young's improvements. In the 

 years 1806 and 1808, I saw cattle feeding in good pasture 

 and good crops of grain, and grass growing in fields, which 

 in 1 804, I thought totally irreclaimable from briars, garlick 

 roots, and original poverty of soil. Where manure is at hand, 

 and capital in the possession of the cultivator to purchase it^ 

 any soil may be rendered fertile ; but Mr. Young affords 

 the best example of good farming, viz. enriching a naturally 

 poor soil, and restoring fertility to exhausted land, by re- 

 turning thereto its own produce raised with the least possible 

 expence. 



J. M. 



