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and horfes than the old farmer my predecefibrs 

 befides railing a quantity of corn. 



Four years afterwards I went to Afgafby, 

 near Plorncaftle, in the county of Lincoln. 

 This farm was unfavourable for flock of any 

 kinds what were kept there required confide- 

 rable afTiftance from art 3 as nature would of 

 herfelf, in that fituation, furnifh but a fcanty 

 allowance. It confided of four hundred acres 

 of land, with right of common over the very 

 extenfive and valuable commons of the eaft 

 and weft fens. And here I acquired, though at 

 a heavy expence, a thorough knowledge of the 

 advantages and difadvantagcs of pafturing on 

 commons. The plough-land of this farm con- 

 fided in general of clay, with flints on the fur- 

 face, covering a ftratum of white clay, inter- 

 mixed with a fmall quantity of fand and flint. 



The methods purfued in agriculture, at that 

 period of time, were turnips, barley, clover, 

 and wheats and that rotation of crops is in 

 fome places yet, though injudicioufly, perfe- 

 vered in. 



I well knew the value of manure, and felt 

 the want of it — confequently ufed every means 

 within the compafs of my knowledge to pro- 

 cure it. I formed fuch a refervoir, or recep, 



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