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been ploughed and managed according to my 

 rules, be enabled to produce better grais than 

 it did before, and of courfe will keep a greater 

 number of fheep, cattle, horfes, &c. than if 

 laid down with fhear-grafs, mofs, ling, gofs, 

 &c. &c. 



If a gentleman fuffers his tenant to plough 

 up a piece of rich pafture-land with the inten- 

 tion of taking fix or eight crops from it -, in all 

 probability the tenant has fome poor worn-out 

 ploughed land, and he makes the ftraw which 

 grows on the frefli, into manure, and lays it on 

 the poor land. The tenant fays, "The frefh land 

 wants no manure ; and poflibly he may be in 

 the right. For, by beflowing on the old plough^ 

 ed land the manure arifing from the new, he will 

 derive from the former more abundant crops, 

 and the latter will be fufficiently prolific without 

 manure. By this method the farmer may im- 

 prove his whole farm, and enrich the poor land 

 confiderably, without impoverifhingthat which 

 he may have recently broken up. 



Were the frefh rich land to be repaid all the 

 manure which the poor ploughed land has at a 

 former period borrowed \ the rich land would 

 not be impoveri fried by ploughing, but on the 



contrary 



