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*' tice would beggar any land ; and yet this 

 ** is the practice commonly purfued. Whereas, 

 " had the farmer contented himfelf with 

 " one crop of corn, and fucceeded that by an 

 " ameliorating crop, inftead of impoverifhing 

 " and reducing his land to a ftate of beg- 

 " gary, it might have been in a ftate of 

 " conftant improvement. The art required 

 " is, to raife a tolerably good crop at firft ; 

 " that being obtained, he muft be a poor 

 *' manager who cannot keep-on with ad- 

 " vantage. 



" This is not a mere matter of opinion. 

 " I have a moor of 120 acres, which, for 

 " fifty years back, never let for more than 

 " eighteen pence an acre. Some of the old 

 " people there remember its bearing as good 

 " corn and clover as any land in the parifh* 

 " though I have fome of four pounds an 

 * acre. I have it now in hand, and laft year 

 " had a field of wheat of about five acres, 

 " which had been fpaded and burnt the fum- 

 " mer before. This produced (ixteen bufhels 

 " to the acre, which, at five millings a 

 " bufhel, amounts to four pounds ; and af- 

 * forded a nett profit of forty millings an 

 " acre, or near it. The land is now in fuf- 

 " ficient heart to produce a good crop of 

 " Barley ; but that I will difpcnfe with, and, 

 " inftead of it, take an ameliorating crop of 

 " turnips, clover, or fome hoeing crop, that 

 " may improve it. The raifing large crops 



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