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 that a fecond fallow (if the firft deferves the 

 name of one) appears to me the only means 

 of recovering land, that had been fo exr 

 ceedingly ill ufed : Accordingly it was 

 fummer and winter fallowed ; couch, and 

 other trumpery that efcaped the harrow, 

 picked by hand, the large Itones cleared off, 

 and fowed in fpring 1763, with white clover, 

 rib-grafs, yellow trefoil, and common hay- 

 feed, iDithout corn ; a method / approve mid 

 pracJife in all cira-^fnftances^ but which was 

 abfolutely neceflary in fields impoverifhed 

 by Ho many crops of grain. 



The produce was eat off by horned 

 cattle, the land having firfl: been fuffi- 

 ciently rolled ; the fields were well manured 

 Vv'ith liable dung that winter, and have been 

 ever fince, and continue to be excellent 

 paftures. 



Some hundred acres of that eftate were 

 in a fimilar exhaufted flate, foils different; 

 many of them of a lighter kind, had not 

 received {0 much detriment by the frequent 

 ufe of lime. Between the years 1759? and 

 1766, I have laid them all down with 

 different management, according to circum- 

 ftances ; and upon re-letting them, have 

 found all the advantages you mention in 

 your Farmer* s Letters^ p. 151, and 152. 

 I muff add, that thev were all laid down 

 'Without corn ; nor have I any reafon to re- 

 pent of that management, 



I fhall 



