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This ftate is very decifive in molr. points. 

 Rent we find, as in the cafe of peafe, lias 

 little or no effect upon the product : From 

 20 s. to 40/. is but two bufhels fuperior to 

 the rents under 5 jr. which is furprizing ; 

 and with beans requires more explanation 

 than was requifite with peafe. It is well 

 known they are fcarce ever fown on poor 

 foils ; their appearing, therefore, in a fcale 

 fo low as 5 j. mufbarife from the rent being 

 very favourable, or from particular circum- 

 ftances, or perhaps from both ; as is the 

 cafe with many crops that are raifed on 

 open field land in Bedfordjhire and North- 

 amptonfJnre> which from being open is low 

 in rent, and from favour fo low as $s. 

 There are in different parts of the king- 

 dom many tracks /)f wet, unkindly, open 

 fields, flrong enough for beans, that not 

 only lett fo low as 5 s. but are really worth 

 no more. Now fuch foils, without proper 

 management, may eafily be fuppofed to 

 yield as good crops as others vaftly richer, 

 and for this reafon, very fertile land in the 

 hands of a flovenly farmer is eternally over- 

 run with weeds, infomuch that half the 

 crops are ruined by them ,• the richer the 

 foil the poorer the crop in many cafes % and 

 the poorer land not, in its nature, abound- 

 ing fo much with weeds, gains by theie 

 means an equality with foils far fuperior. 

 That this reafoning is juft there is great 



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