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weight and worth. Indeed the most valu- 

 able, and I had almost said, the only im- 

 provements of magnitude that have of 

 late years been made, here, in agriculture, 

 have been in the various provisions of 

 green food, affoixled for the necessity of 

 winter, and for the more pressing wants 

 of the two first months of spring. In this 

 series of improvements, I beg leave to 

 class this relative art, Avhich, though it 

 cannot, in every situation, be so widely 

 extended as the cultivation of turnips, 

 rape, cabbage, lucerne, &c. yet, where it 

 can be fully executed, it will in no wise 

 disgrace the relationship in which I have 

 placed it, but will alibrd it abundant aid 

 and support. For floated meadows not 

 only require no manure from the farm- 

 yard, but liberally encourage the plough, 

 by affording an aniuial extra supply of 



manure, 



