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and its requiring no dung. These pro- 

 perties I venture to estimate at 31. per 

 acre per ami. additional value, even upon 

 good land, and much more upon bad land ; 

 and this estimate, I presume, will not be 

 thought high]}' stated by any farmer who 

 has had a full stock of cattle and sheep in 

 a late spring, and has had it in his power 

 to have recourse to a meadow of this des- 

 cription ; nor will any person think it high 

 A^'ho will take the trouble of perusing tlie 

 detail of facts which I shall presently 

 recite : for I have lately met with so preg^ 

 nant an instance of its superior excellence, 

 that I should by no means do justice to tlic 

 subject if I withheld it from the public. It 

 is an instance, which tends to jjlace the 

 most engaging feature of this practice in 

 a striking point of view, and gives to the 

 production of yearly green food its proper 



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