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proved that very land as much as fome forts of 

 manure in ufe. He who fowed the rape juft men- 

 tioned acquired a fortune of near thirty thou- 

 fand pounds by farming. It was looked upon 

 as certain by all the neighbouring farmers, thac 

 this repeated fuccefTion of rape-crops mud in- 

 evitably ruin the land : but when, foon after hig 

 leaving the farm, it was cleaned and thrown in- 

 to a rotation of crops, they never were deficient 

 where the rape had grown, as I obferved be- 

 fore, for fourteen fuccefTivc years. I think it a 

 miftaken notion in thofe who fo pofitively af- 

 fert that land is confiderably injured by being 

 fown with rape to (land for feed j for if rape 

 intended for feed is fown in drills, moulded up 

 in the fpring, and hand-weeded as often as ne» 

 cefTary; it would certainly be one of the beft 

 fallows that could be made for wheat, provi- 

 ded the manure is not forgotten to be put in- 

 to the drills. 



The farmer need be under no apprehenfiorr 

 of lofs in making the above experiment, I can 

 alTure him of fucccfs, provided he follows ex- 

 actly the method laid down. In refpedt to har- 

 vefting rape-feed, I would, as foon as it is 



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