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poor foils come into the account. It is 

 needlefs to throw the fcale into diitinct ave- 

 rages according to rent, becaufe a flight ex- 

 amination (hews that the variations would 

 be fo great, that no conclufions could be 

 drawn from it ; there are but few low rents, 

 and their produce is near as great as moit. 



From the other particulars of the intelli- 

 gence, the value of this excellent vegetable 

 is fufficiently dilplayed. 



About Ormjkirk it is reckoned more pro- 

 fitable than corn ; and at Wentwortb the 

 farmers think that nothing exceeds it. Mr. 

 Turners crops at 4/. 4.J. per acre ; and Sir 

 Digby Legard*s of 20 s. upon twelvepenny 

 wold land ; all fhew that this grafs is un- 

 commonly profitable. 



Several conliderable tracks of country in 

 this route do not poffeis it; but, upon the 

 whole, the culture is more common than I 

 expected. 



It appears, y that wheat fown after the clo- 

 ver mown, is fuperior to that which fucceeds 

 the crops fed. 



In feveral of thefe places it is the cuftom 

 to fow oats after it ; this is a bad practice ; 

 for when the clover is fine, wheat may al- 

 moft univerfally fucceed it. Witnefs the 

 poor thin rye foils oxEaJi Newton, converted 

 into wheat ones by this grafs. 



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