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fome of the old paitures are to be feen yet 

 in tenants hands; they are poifoned with 

 fuperfluous water, and overrun with every 

 fpecies of trumpery and weeds, the grafs of 

 a poor fort, and the quantity trifling. In 

 fome of his Lordfhip's lays of three or four 

 years old, theafter-grafs, had it been mown, 

 would have yielded at leaft two ton of hay 

 an acre. 



It is obfervable upon this plan, that no 

 part of it is beyond the reach of a com- 

 mon farmer ; a principal view of Lord 

 Rockingha7?i in all his hufbandry. Here 

 are no two years fallow, nor any lofs by 

 laying without a crop of corn ; the feeds 

 indeed are in large quantities, and amount 

 in total price to near 50 s. an acre * ; but 

 then it is to be conlidered, that the thick- 

 nefs of fowing gives it a molt, excellent 

 crop the very firft year, which in the 

 common management is generally the very 

 contrary ; and it is inconteftible that his 

 Lordfhip's method pays its own expence 

 in the firft crop. Suppofe the farmer's 

 feeds coft him 20;. the excefs on the 

 fide of the better manner is then, we 

 will fay, 25 s. ; a fum in the value of hay 



* 18 lb. Clover, 



8 Buihels grafs, at 5 t. 



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