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iketched, is fo much more excellent than 

 any I ever yet heard of being applied to 

 moor land, tiiat the erops are lower rated 

 than moderation would have allowed. The 

 llighteil confideration of a few circum- 

 flanccs will evince this fufiiciently. The 

 land is almofl amply limed with the allies 



of the paring beyond the pra6lice of 



mod farmers ; and the virtue of the frefh 

 foil, the aflies, and the lime kept in the 

 foil by not being exhaufled by fucceeding 

 crops. Turnips and cabbages the firfl 

 year; theil oats, and with thofe cats, the 

 graffes: whereas the methods hitherto ufed, 

 have been to take feveral crops of corn be- 

 fore laying to grafs, which makes an im- 

 menfe difference. Another circumllance, 

 is the conftant fold of 1000 fheep, an ob- 

 je6l of vaft importance, for it manures 

 100 a.crts per annum moft excellently : next 

 we are to remember, the moft ample m^a- 

 nuring given by compofts, which amounts 

 throughout all the improvements, to above 

 40 loads per acre. A rich mixture of 

 dung, half as much lime, and an addition 

 of rotten peat earth or virgin moukl, this 

 is fpread on the new grafs. — Such fpirited 

 management, carried confifbently through 



a whole 



