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by any chance had met with fome in the trunk 

 of a tree, I mould be afraid to tafte it: but if 

 I at laft ihould venture and get one lick, I 

 fhould be inclined to tafte again ; and when I 

 found it both fweet to my tafte, and whole- 

 fome, I fhould become fond of it. So much 

 do 1 expect this New Syftem of farming will 

 prove pieafant to the farmer, when he once 

 taftes the fweets of it. There is nothing 

 fweetens labour lb much as an adequate re- 

 ward -, and method is the foul of all bufinefs. 

 By the rules laid down in this Treatife a farm 

 becomes almoft as produelive as a garden; 

 and I would ftimulate every one to exert him-, 

 felf to follow them in practice. I have been 

 ufed to feed cattle upon the moil fertile 

 grounds in the county of Lincoln, but never 

 could arrive at fuch a ftate oj* perfection as by 

 this method. It may not be amifs to obferve, 

 that in two different inftances I have fo well 

 fattened two Scotch cows, that they had as 

 much tallow within them, as they weighed per 

 quarter, though they had been milked within 

 fix weeks of their being killed, the one weigh- 

 ed four (tone per quarter, and had four ftone 



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