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valuable ; it is well known in feveral places, 

 that no food is better for rearing and fatten- 

 ing hogs, but I never before heard of feed- 

 ing promifcuoufly all the frock in a farm- 

 yard on them; but that gentleman's long 

 experience proves it not only to be eligible, 

 but extremely profitable. 



If potatoes came in once every courfe of 

 crops on light or rich foils, not very heavy, 

 and were all applied to fatten numerous 

 heards of fwine, or to maintain oxen, cows, 

 young cattle, &c. the improvement of the 

 whole farm would be the certain confe- 

 quence ; for the fields in which they are cul- 

 tivated are finely enriched by themfelves, 

 and their confequences in manuring would 

 perform the fame office to others. 



From what I have remarked in the tour, 

 I have reafon to think digging a much fupe- 

 rior method to plowing, with the fets laid 

 in the furrows. The latter way may be 

 very proper in a very light rich land ; but 

 in fandy or gravelly loams the digging is 

 fuperior. If I was to recommend a practice 

 it mould be the following, which I think, 

 from the preceding minutes, as well as my 

 own experience, is excellent. Unite the 

 plowing and lazy-bed methods; firft plow 

 the land fine, in beds about five feet broad, 

 then fpread your dung ; if the foil is very 

 light, it mould be well rotted and mixed 

 together; but if the land is inclinable to ftifF- 



nefs, 



