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the furface, and generally begets a fet of 

 white clover. 



The earth is fo generous a parent, that 

 we jfind all land repay us for our labour, 

 and fl^ill > hut it will appear, on the 

 flighteft inveftigation, that no land pays 

 fo well as meadow, and pafture. Where 

 improvements upon ploughed land pay a 

 crown, the other generally pays a guinea. 

 Therefore when land is newly laid down 

 in paflure, it ought to be well manured 

 the third or fourth year, let the expence 

 be ever fo confiderable, becaufe it will 

 bring a good fet of graffes much fooner 

 than they would otherwife come; and 

 double the land in value for feven or 

 eight years afterwards. 



I fhall clofe this fubjedt with adviiing 

 all farmers to be careful, not to over- 

 flock their paflure land ; for when they 

 do, they are great lofers by it. Land, 



when 



