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 importance, is the difpofition of the manure; 

 iainfoine affeds not dung, but it is applied 

 to excellent ufe in the turnip-crop. Thefe 

 circumftances render this farm much more 

 advantageous than I have fuppofed. 



The farm on the fame foil, but kept in 

 the arable culture, is the next in profit to 

 both gentleman and farmer; it is upon this 

 to be remarked, that the former muft not 

 expert to find a proportional profit in this 

 to others wherein are lefs tillage ; for fuch 

 farms, I have often remarked, are very- 

 unprofitable to gentlemen in the amount 

 of labour, and the complex nature of the 

 bufinefs. 



The muir-farm laid to grafs, and occu- 

 pied, is the third in the farmer*s lift ; but 

 relet after improvement, holds the fame 

 rank in the gentleman's, who makes 

 within 2 per cent, as much by letting it, as 

 the other by farming it ; which, to all 

 improvers of wafte land, is a very capital 

 point ; for an improvement that is effeded 

 in two or three years, leaves the under- 

 taker at full liberty for frefh bufinefs, and, 

 at the fame time, yields fo good a profit as 

 lo per cent, is, beyond doubt, an objed of 



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