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spending to the above course. The land, in its 

 original state, consisted of a poor, thin, deafish 

 soil, without any good property to recommend 

 it, except its being dry, and not worth 5 s. per 

 acre. By judicious management, and a plenti- 

 ful supply of manure, particularly of marie, the 

 quality and appearance of the soil is entirely 

 changed, and the land brought to such a state of 

 improvement, as to bear abundant crops of any 

 kind of grain. Upon ground in such good con- 

 dition, many farmers would have introduced 

 wheat into the rotation. But Mr Cheap has, 

 with great propriety, rejected it, as being rather 

 too severe a crop for so light a soil. The ex- 

 clusion of the wheat will enable the land to pro- 

 duce the other crops in greater abundance and 

 perfection, and to retain its fertility more per- 

 manently and with less expence. 



The leading feature in all rotations is, to in- 

 troduce green and cleaning crops, as much as 

 may be, between the white crops. 



Upon the high and extensive district, men- 

 tioned pages 24th and 25th of this survey, where 

 the soil is a cold wet clay, generally upon a close 

 tilly bottom, with large baulks between the old 

 ridges, and these baulks full of stones ; the prac- 

 tice of the most spirited farmers is, first, to clean 

 the land of stones, and to enclose with the larg- 

 est ; then thoroughly to drain it, applying the 

 smaller stones to this purpose ; and, while these 

 operations are going forward, to give it a com- 

 plete summer-fallow. These preparatory steps 

 being taken, the following course is observed : 



