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third courfe with red clover, fown with bar- 

 ley or oats after wheat. If this takes very 

 well, he leaves it to turf itfelf. White clo- 

 ver comes as faft as the red wears out ^ for the 

 firft four or five years it fupports only fheep, 

 but as it improves, which it does very faft, he 

 grazes it with black cattle. 



Lime he has tried inftead of gravel, 160 

 barrels an acre at is. but it did not better than 

 gravel at one-fourth the expenfe. In gravel- 

 ling, the beginning of the pit he has found 

 good for nothing ; and the deeper it is dug, it 

 is fo much the better. It will not do twice, 

 but will laft 8 crops, with 2 fallows. 



Juft fuch an account would be given of 

 marie in Norfolk, if they pra&ifed fo bad a 

 courfe of crops. Any manuring with fo pow- 

 erful an alcaly as marie leaves the ground, af- 

 ter an exhaufting courfe of crops, in much 

 worfe order than it found it. Would but the 

 Irifh farmers purfue the Norfolk fyftem, of 

 never letting two crops of white corn come 

 together, they would not then find their gra- 

 vel exhaufted in 8 crops : it would probably 

 laft 20, and in that management they might 

 gravel again and again. 



He has the white light marie under boggy 

 bottoms, and has ufed much of it, but does 

 not find it anfwer fo well as gravel. 



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