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 in a very flovenly manner, fufFering them 

 to be overrun with fpontaneous rul?bifh, 

 and quite wet for want of draining. To 

 convert fuch into fine and profitable mea- 

 dovv's, is not fufficient ; for the farmers who 

 think of nothing but the riches of a gentle- 

 man, will urge the expences being fo great, 

 as more than to balance the advantages of 

 the improvement. For this reafon, an 

 accurate account iliould be entered in a 

 book of all fuch expences, and the returns, 

 thatfadts in every particular may be brought 

 to convince fuch as doubt of the profit. — 

 This remark is equally applicable to all 

 improvements by marling, chalking, and 

 other manures, which common farmers are 

 often afraid to pradife, left the expences 

 fliould exceed the benefit. 



Suppofe a nobleman or gentleman ob- 

 fcrves his tenants in much diftrefs through 

 the winter for want of green food for their 

 cattle, the foil being a fi:ifF clay ; and confe- 

 quently, no turnips cultivated. He is in- 

 formed that cabbages are, in other places, 

 ufed on fuch foils with great advantage ; 

 to propofe their culture to the farmers 

 would be ab find ; the novelty would be too 



great 



