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reducible to eftimate) fail of proving to any 

 one as advantageous as I have ftated it: 19 /. 

 per cent, after a deduction of 27, on all la- 

 bour, is a noble profit, and fuch as a gentle- 

 man can never make, I am very confident, 

 in any arable farm, managed upon common 

 principles. 



The cabbages and clover together, main- 

 tain upon this farm as large a flock of cattle 

 as are kept on half a fcore fuch by com- 

 mon farmers ; confequently, here is a vafl 

 concentration of manure, which muft, in 

 the round of two or three courfes, fertilize 

 the whole to fuch a degree, that the crops 

 cannot fail of improving greatly, and the 

 profit rifing much higher than I have flated 

 it. After two courfes, I fhould calculate 

 the wheat at 4^- qrs. per 'acre ; the fpring- 

 corn at 54 ; the clover to pay 6 /. per acre ; 

 and the cabbages 10/. 10/. Nor is this an 

 extravagant fuppofition, for the 25330 

 loads of compoiL, raifed every year, covers 

 the 70 acres of cabbages and clover every 

 year ; which is fo noble a manuring, that 

 immenfe crops cannot well be miffed. 



And here I fhall add a word or two con- 

 cerning the purchafe of flraw : I have not 



yet 



