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down, they cover the ground more clofely and 

 preferve a greater degree of moifture : but if 

 you have a bean crop, and the beans run up 

 too high, it will be advifable to top them with 

 a fey the in a ftraight fhaft. A man would top 

 them for fix pence per acre; and the operation 

 would make them bear better. 



I muft repeat my predilection for peas on 

 land liable to be flooded, as they are much 

 Jooner ripe ; and the fhorter the time the crop 

 is on the land, the lefs the danger of lofs by 

 fuch floods : therefore the earlier the peas the 

 better. I fee no reafon againft fowing garden- 

 peas generally. I have always found them to 

 produce the greatefl crop -, and if ufed, they 

 would be equally cheap to the grower for feed, 

 and furely more profitable, as they would boil, 

 grind, into flour, and turn to great advantage 

 by being gathered green at the beginning of 

 fummer. Befides, as they are early off the 

 land, it might be fcarified to make as perfect a 

 fallow as the farmer could defire. By fuch a 

 fucceflion of crops, the ftraw, flubble, &c. 

 would produce fufficient manure to furnifh at 

 lead tix. loads per acre every two years. 



I cannot advife the fowing of clover, or of 

 any of the grafs-feeds, on this land, except 



wanted 



