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good y'ear with a bad ane, and _^o or 4(3- 

 acre& tog-ether, yield near a ton of hay per 

 acre, on land which never bore any hay 

 before it was inclofed : I efteem this land to 

 be now well worth 10 s. an acre* 



It is remarked, that hme feldom does 

 well' upon hmeftone land j and indeed, 

 though I have often tried Hme, it has never 

 anlwered compleatly : The fheep-fold is the- 

 only manure v/e can depend on; pigeons 

 dung is very powerful and eafily trani- 

 ported, but we cannot get enough of it to 

 enrich much land : I keep about 500 llieep^ 

 and can fold, from M^y-day to Michaelmas^ 

 30 acres twice over. I feldom lay down 

 more than 40 acres in a year with grafs : 

 I generally give the land three or four 

 plowing-^:, and fow it in April or May^ with 

 grafs feeds, with or without corn ; the latter 

 way ufually fucceeds beft. I make my in- 

 clofures large, containing 40 acres at ieaftj 

 by which means the fencing is lefs expen-* 

 five. To inclofe 40 acres with a double 

 fence, at 6 j. /jfT rood, will coft 150/. The 

 preparation of the ground will coft 42 /. 

 For the ploughing an acre four times, and 

 the feeds rccjuifite, is worth a guinea : The 

 intercft of 192/. at four per cent, is about 

 7/. 1 4 J. but the annual advance by the 

 inclolure, I have found to be at leaft %s. 

 per acre ; confequcntly the advance on 40 

 acres is 16/. or above eight per cent* interefl 



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