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fall below what it is at prefent : This is 

 the ftrongeft proof imaginable of wrong 

 ideas of hufbandry, for it fhews that the 

 farmers here have no other notion of 

 breaking up old grafs, but that of imme- 

 diately ploughing out its very heart, and 

 trufting to chance for a renewal of ferti- 

 lity ; whereas fuch a rich furfice as thefe 

 warrens mould be managed with the 

 greateft caution, very little corn taken 

 from them, but much turnips, clover and 

 ray-grafs, and fainfoine, by which means 

 the Toil would be for ever in heart, the 

 rent greatly raifed, and the value more at 

 the end of a leafe than at the beginning. 



Mr. Ellerker's fteward has in his farm 

 ftruck out a better hufbandry than that 

 of his neighbours ; inftead of remaining 

 like them ignorant of the clover hufbandry, 

 he has judicioufly introduced it into a 

 courfe which cannot be exceeded, 



1. Turnips 



2. Barley 



3. Clover two years 



4. Wheat 



This is very different from the courfes I 

 gave above, and infinitely preferable to 

 them ; but I mould remark, that as the 

 foil has no complete fillow, the turnip huf- 

 bandry mould be managed with the utmoft 

 attention, or » worfe courfe cannot be 

 fixed on. If the preparation for the tur- 

 M 3 nips 



