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Now had the foil been any thing but ^. 

 dunghill, this management would totally 

 have ruined it ; fix fucceflive crops of corn, 

 as a preparation for grafles, is a condudl that 



nothing but the richeft foil could bear. 



But it fuffered all this under a courfe of 

 lime ; which being a flimulus rather than 

 a manure, forces the earth to yield all its 

 nourifhment : whence the common remark, 

 that without lime you cannot completely 

 ruin land. But the foil being a vail mafs 

 of vegetable food, the lime forced it to 

 tlirow out immenfe crops of oats, and yet 

 left enough for the nourifhment of the 

 grafs. But contrary to this management, 

 I propofe that only one crop of oats be taken, 

 and with thofe the graffes to be fown, the 

 lime is thrown in with the afhes of the 

 paring and burning ; the turnips fo pro- 

 duced are fed on the land; fo that the 

 graffes come at once on the noble manuring 

 of the afhes, and alfo that of the fheep in 

 eating the turnips, thus the lime has not 

 the natural foil ajone to work on, but alfo 

 a double manuring. In a word, the grafs 

 at once comes into poflefTion of all that 

 nourifhiment, which in the other method is 

 devoured by five crops of corn : A difference 

 which thofe who are acquainted with huf-- 

 bandry mufl know to be prodigious. 



But this advantage of the grafs reaping 

 the full exertion of the foiPs fertility is not 



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