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u crops ; but I am of opinion* and I fpeak 

 " from fbme experience, that the fame grain 

 ** may be cultivated as long as he pleafes 

 " upon lands managed in the manner that I 

 " have recommended. In confequence of 

 ** this happy difpofition of the foil, every 

 " kind of grain may be fuited to the land moft 

 " proper for it. I do. not confine the Alter- 

 " nate Hufbandry to oats and barley; I have 

 ** fuccefsfully followed it upon good wheat- 

 " land ; and, if the farmer attends to his bu- 

 " fmefs, he will find his wheat-crops greatly 

 " to exceed his expectations. Near twenty' 

 " bufhels of wheat may be got annually fr m 

 " one acre of land cultivated in this alternate 

 " way, and with little expence of manure. 



" I acknowledge, that many of theie ad- 

 " vantages are in common with the Drill 

 " Hufbandry ; but I flatter mvfelf, that there 

 '* are others, which that ingenious fyftem 

 " does not enjoy. 



" I know it will be objected, that, in this 

 " manner, the fallows will be loft to the 

 *' fheep during the iummer months. I an- 

 " fwer, fo much the better; if poflible, the 

 *' fallows mould not be permitted to bear 

 " a fingle Kaf. The farmer ought to find 

 " other ways to fupport his thecp; and, if he 

 " is an intelligent man, he will readily do it. 

 " It is an odd kind of Hufoundry, when the 

 " fields bear corn one year for the owner, and 

 ** the next, weeds for his Iheep. 



" When 



