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of incomparable ufc to him both in mow- 

 ing for hay, and feeding, and the wheat he 

 gets after it on one earth, is generally a 

 fine crop. If the clover turns out an in- 

 different or a weedy crop, he fows beans 

 upon it inftead of wheat ; manages them 

 like his neighbours, except in fowing a 

 fmaller quantity of feed about two bufhels 

 and half; and in this way without hoeing, 

 he gets flalks with about 40 pods : he 

 brought me one of laft year, that had 46, 

 but fuch ftalks cannot be common, but 

 muff grow in an open vacant fpot. 



Cabbages he has cultivated thefe four 



years The large Scotch cabbage : Sows 



the latter end of February, pricks them out 



once before they are fet in the field. He 



never gives the land a whole year's fallow 



for them ; only from November till the 



time of planting, which is the beginning 



of June ; but always manures for them 



with about 10 loads of yard dung: The 



large ftrong plants he fets directly from 



, the feed-bed into the field. His rows 



are three feet afunder and the plants two 



feet in the rows, he never watered any but 



once; however, that muft ever remain 



accinental, in very dry feafons they would 



not ftrike root without watering. A man 



plants an acre in three days. He horfe- 



hoes them according as the weeds rife from 



once to thrice; begins to cut the latter end 



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