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ly rival the common farmer, mufl cultivate 

 grafs alone, or purfue a more fpirited and 

 accurate management of arable land than 

 ever performed by common farmers ; as to 

 their creeping on in that vulgar courfe under 

 a million of difadvantages, v^rithout half 

 the advantages naturally annexed to it, the 

 condud: cannot poffibly be attended with 

 any thing but utter lofs, and to fmall for- 

 tunes utter ruin. The culture of cabbages 

 here fketched is peculiarly valuable ; for it 

 enables the clay farmers to keep as great 

 Hocks of cattle as the turnip ones, and 

 even greater, which is a mofl: valuable ac- 

 quifition to hufbandry, perhaps the mofl 

 valuable that has been made in this age : 

 a peculiar benefit refped:ing it in favour of 

 gentlemen, is the fimplifying their bufi- 

 nefs, by reducing their buying and felling 

 to a fmall compafs; for this culture may 

 be (o managed, by keeping covrs, fheep, or 

 young cattle, that all the cabbages, clover, 

 ftraw, and hay of a farm, may be fold in 

 one bargain, which is no trifling point. 

 What a prodigious difference between fuch 

 a condud and that of bad farmers, who 

 jaife their clover for hay to fell, and carry 



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