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 done it efFe£tually, by drains two feet and 

 an half wide at the top ; two feet and an 

 half deep, and one foot wide at bottom: 

 The black earth thrown out he mixes with 

 lime, and finds it an excellent compoft, 

 which anfwers greatly. 



This black land in its unimproved ftate, 

 is worth to no tenant above is. 6d, an acre, 

 but improved as above, would let very 

 eafily for Ss. 



The limeflone land he manages in the 

 fame manner, but the crops are much greater. 

 The foil is a fine light loam from one foot 

 to two foot deep ; and worth to a tenant 

 unimproved 5 s. an acre : He gets of all forts 

 exceeding fine crops from it ; oats to. fix or 

 feyen quarters an acre, and not often lefs ; 

 and potatoes much greater than from the 

 black land; but he keeps them quite clean 

 on both. When laid down ta grafs, this foil 

 is worth from 12 j". to 20.f. an acre. 



Mr. E/h'()i in general lays it down as a 

 maxim, never to attempt any improvement, 

 without inclofing: He takes in a field every 

 year ; but the firft work is furrounding it 

 with a jfLone wall : This conduct ought uni- 

 verfally to be followed, for thofe improve- 

 ments that are undertaken without a previous 

 inclofiare, and into fiibdivifions, mufl be 

 languid and of a fhort exlftence. — Another 

 point of this cultivator's conduct L<5 to lay 

 down to grafs, as foouas the land is in ordar,. 



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