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contrary much enriched. The tenant proves 

 .As own enemy, if he exhaufts the rich land by 

 improper cropping, or by depriving it of all 

 the manure which has grown upon it, to enrich 

 other land. The landlord receives almoft as 

 much damage by this practice as if the draw 

 were fold from that land for fix or eight years ; 

 and the tenant, after the land has been nearly 

 worn out, probably lays it down with a bad 

 kind of feed, or at leaft fomething which does 

 not vegetate ! He then applies to the landlord 

 for leave to plough up another frem piece; but 

 the landlord, if he knows his own intereft, an- 

 fwers cc No ! The clofe I fufTered you to plough 

 you have ruined; if I let you proceed, you 

 will fpoil the whole farm/' 



Suppofe we lay down what is commonly 

 called the word mode of culture; and begin 

 by paring and burning — fow with rape-feed, 

 then wheat, then beans — the bean-crop in 

 drills. We mall have fix loads of manure per 

 acre to lay in the drills, confequently fhall ex- 

 pect a very great crop of beans. Then wheat 

 again — then a crop of oats — then turnips* 

 Then we fhall have fix loads of manure from 

 thefe beans, wheat and oats, to lay en our tur? 



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