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Upon which is engraved, For the bejl fix 

 acres of hoed turneps, 1769, and a fpace 

 left for the tenant's name that wins it. It 

 is to be difplayed on the rent-day, and 

 delivered on that which follows. The 

 thought was an excellent one, and will, 

 beyond doubt, have a good effect. 



The importance of an accurate culture 

 of thefe ameliorating crops is not fuffici- 

 ently known among the common farmers 

 in nine-tenths of the kingdom. It has been 

 fo long an idea, that all land muft be fal- 

 lowed, that landlords have univerfally been 

 extremely backward to admit any vegeta- 

 ble as a fubftitute ; and no wonder, fince 

 bad tenants are always fo free with fowing 

 exhaufting crops, and running the foil out 

 of heart ; both reafons have concurred to 

 keep back fo profitable a branch of agricul- 

 ture. It is a fact, that no land abfolutely 

 requires a fallow ; but then the hufbandry 

 fhould be very fpiritedly executed to keep 

 it clean, particularly heavy foils : Upon 

 light or dry ones, turneps and clover, pro- 

 perly introduced, are undoubtedly prefera- 

 ble to a fallow ; and upon clays and ftrong 

 loams, beans are an excellent fubftiuite to 

 turneps, admit the foils being kept as clean 

 as a fallow; particularly if fown in drills 

 (which is much the cheapen: method of 

 cultivating them) and equally ameliorates 

 it. But I neeci not furely add, that all 



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