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horfesy there will remain two loads of manure, 

 yearly to the account of the faintfoin, for each 

 acre. The poor land upon which this hay is. 

 grown would not produce one ton of hay from 

 natural grafs in ten years; but by being fown 

 with faintfoin it is capable of raifing within 

 that period twenty loads of manure of an ex- 

 cellent quality. In the natural ftate of the 

 land, it would not raife more than one load of 

 manure in ten years, and even that of fuch 

 a quality as to be worth little or nothing. 

 When faintfoin is exhaufted and ploughed 

 up; from the faintfoin ley the firft crop ought 

 to be wheat dibbled, or peas. If you plough 

 early in the winter to let the froft act upon the 

 land ; and in the fpring drill, and manure with 

 four loads per acre of its own manure, and 

 fow the peas as directed in feet ion XLV, 

 & productive crop would follow. We have 

 now, for the ten years, fixteen loads of manure 

 remaining on hand for each acre. The next 

 winter a fallow for turnips . Debit for fix loads 

 more manure per acre for a crop of turnips, 

 drilled and eaten off with fheep, which would 

 put the land in a proper ftate for barley and 

 clover. We can then afTbrd to manure the 

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