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After this statement, my correspondent, 

 sensible that it is the spring crop which 

 principally claims the attention of the 

 public, and on which I ought to lay pecu- 

 liar stress in recommending the practice, 

 dismisses the subject with saying, that the 

 hay crop was as usual, about fifteen tons, 

 and was six weeks in growing. 



The above sum, it should be observed, 

 was made by the owner of this meadow, 

 at a time when other grass-land is in a 

 dormant state, or exhibits but feeble symp- 

 toms of vegetation. He had received 

 more than four pounds an acre for his 

 land, when his less fortunate neighbours 

 were only looking forward to future crops, 

 in which expectation he had more than an 

 equally favourable prospect with them; 

 for the hay and lattermath crops of a 



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