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It was formerly the general cuftom to fal- 

 low land, intended for wheat, every third or 

 fourth year, and in many places it is fo ftill : 

 but of late years feveral farmers fubftitute a 

 hoed-crop of turnips or beans, or a crop of 

 clover, inftead of a fallow ; and by that 

 means they get a crop in the fallow year, and 

 fave the expence of fallowing. This is a va- 

 luable improvement in the Old Hufbandry ; 

 and with this improved Hufbandry the horfe- 

 hoed wheat crops are here compared. In a 

 comparifon of two methods of Hufbandry, 

 the trial that is to determine the merit of each 

 Ihould be fair and equal, which here it is not 

 a crop of turnips, obtained the fallow year, is 

 allowed by all to be profitable to the farmer; 

 and, if fo, mould not the New Hufbandry 

 have that benefit as well as the Old ? But in- 

 ftead of this, the Old Hufbandry has here the 

 advantage of a crop of turnips the firft year, 

 and the New Hufbandry is charged with the 

 expence of a fallow, or has no advantage that 

 year. It is true, the crop of turnips is charged 

 as a loliug one, and would be really fb to ap- 

 pearance fome years, when the farmer is ob- 

 liged to give the turnip- land two or three 

 ploughing**, harrowings, and feed, extraordi- 

 nary, on account of the turnips being repeatedly 

 deftroyed by the fly : but in the years when 

 that accident happens, and that the expence and 

 rent exceed the value of the turnips, they 

 are not even in fuch years unprofitable, be- 



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