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But I cannot avoid remarking, that 

 thefe produ6ls are thole gained by a con- 

 duct, in fonie refpecls, very different from 

 what I particularly recommended in the 

 preceding letters -, turnips were oftentimes 

 repeated once, twice, and even three times 

 — fome fields were actually fallowed. In 

 others, oats and mailin were fown feveral 

 times before the gralTes j infomuch that 

 in the 12th year of the improvement, 

 when J 27 acres were brought into cul- 

 ture, no lefs than 81 of them were un- 

 der arable crops, and even 6^ in oats, 

 which fhews how httle the material obje6l 

 of laying to grafs as foon as polhble, had 

 been adhered to ; for though much of the 

 farm is white land, yet the more kept un- 

 der the plough, undoubtedly the lefs could 

 annually be improved : I by no means 

 offer this in arraignment ofthecondu6l of 

 fo fpirited a cultivator, to whom the world 

 is fo much obliged, but merely to fliew 

 that the crops the land yielded, were in no 

 proportion to what would have been pro- 

 duced, had it fulted tlic improver's general 

 defign to convert the land as fpeedily as 

 poflible to grafs, that the annual increafe 

 might be unbroken. Another remark I 



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