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dicious choice in our fyflem of cropping. 

 I am inclined to believe, that any limited 

 portion of land, tolerably good in nature, 

 will produce, if well cultivated, and pro- 

 perly flocked, vegetable and animal ma- 

 nure enough to fupport itfelf, in good 

 heart, for ages, without any foreign aid. 

 But no exa(fl: rules can be given in writ- 

 ing, what the courfe of cropping fhould 

 be, lince foils vary fo much. But it may 

 be afTerted with confidence, that the moil 

 advantageous one does not confift, in the 

 old mode of fowing three crops of grain, 

 in fucceflion, and then letting the ground 

 remain two, or three years more without 

 yielding any thing, under the notion of 

 recovering it by reft. This fyftem fhould 

 be wholly exploded. The hufbandry of 

 the Aujirian Netherlands is, undoubted- 

 ly, the moft ufeful that is pradiifed. 

 There the land, like our gardens, yields 

 Y ^ ^ crop 



