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if they have other food befides, and depend 

 on thefe but in part, no fuch effect is per- 

 ceived. Lad year two acres and a half, 

 much worfe than the prefent crop, kept 

 twelve cows (with fome ftrawj the princi- 

 pal part of the winter. The oxen Mr. 

 Tucker has fatted on them, have proved 

 excellent beef. His pigs eat them very 

 greedily. 



The vaft crops of corn he raifes after 

 this vegetable, prove that it by no means 

 exhaufts the foil, notwithftanding he con- 

 stantly draws them, and never feeds in the 

 field. He has raifed more than ten quar- 

 ters of oats per acre, the firft crop after 

 them, and eight quarters the fecond crop 

 without any fallow intervening, which is a 

 furprifing produce, confidering that his 

 farm never receives any other fallow than 

 the cultivation of fallow crops, viz. turnips 

 and cabbages. 



This gentleman has a very curious ex- 

 periment on wheat ; it is a crop fown with 

 feed from Dunfablc ; it is an excellent 

 one, and the grain much improved. It 

 is pity that feed is not changed often, and 

 from a greater diflance than is common *. 



From 



* Another circumftance, though not con- 

 cerning agriculture, I fhould not forget-, which 

 is the landscape from Mr. Tucker's cabbage- 

 field, 



