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from turnip-land being oftener well ma- 

 naged than clay ; for it is but in a few 

 places that the hufbandry of fallowing with 

 beans is pradifed, but that of turnips is, 

 on light land, general : fo that, in the lat- 

 ter, the unprofitable practice of dired fal- 

 lowing is banifhed, but not in the former, 

 which makes a vafl: difference. But I know 

 from my own experience, as well as the 

 Kentifh pradice, that beans in drills are as 

 good a preparation for barley on clay land, 

 as turnips are on light foils ; and the courfe 

 of fowing clover wdth frefh barley, and the 

 wheat upon the clover, I think, is more be- 

 neficial, than fowing wheat upon bean 

 i'tubble, which excludes clover from the 

 courfe. The difference between a mere 

 fallow and an ameliorating fallow crop, is 

 prodigious. Hence the notion in common, 

 that turnip land is more profitable than 

 £lay ; which is a mere vulgar error. I ap- 

 prehend light land no where triumphs 

 more than in the marled parts of Norfolk, 

 where the foil is a fmdy loam, naturally 

 rich, and the marie of a very fine, fat, 

 foapy kind. Barley, it is fuppofcd, de- 

 lights iu fuch foil J but I can name trads 

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