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" .wheat conftantly looked well and promif- 

 " ing, in winter and the early part of the 

 " fpring of the year ; but as it advanced, it 

 " grew rank j and at harvefl, was either run 

 all to flraw, and was befides very fmutty ; 

 " or elfe, if a heavy mower of rain happened 

 " to fall, it was lodged, matted, and grew. 

 This was, indeed, a very mortifying cir- 

 " cumftance, but our farmer could find no 

 " remedy for it. He feveral times, without 

 " fuccefs, tried folding fome fheep on his 

 wheat : but this part of Hufbandry, for 

 " want of ikill, he managed fo badly, that 

 " he loft two entire crops : for he had fcarcely 

 " the return of his feed at harveft. This 

 < could never hold long ; fo that, in the end, 

 " he was, as I faid before, broke and ruined. 



" This man never could be perfuaded, that 

 " any part of his lofs was to be attributed to 

 " the dung he laid on his land ; though he coiir 

 < c ftantly manured it with horfe-dung, before 

 " it was half- rotten ; and without any mix- 

 " ture, to allay its great heat. This kept 

 " the foil in a conftant ftate of fermentation, 

 and flocked it with weeds ; infomuch, that 

 when I took pofleflion of the farm, fome of 

 the foil was abfolutely mouldy, and flunk 

 " again, it was fo rank. 



" I will now inform you of my method 

 " ofmanagement, that you may be able to judge 

 " how far I was benefited by the errors of my 

 ' predeceffor. 



I found 



