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CULTIVATION of the VINE. 



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in a fhort time, and by rooting, will fo tunible and mijc 

 thcta togetbcT, that they will foon rot and make good iiore 

 of manure. Then again, ifcoraftalks, hufks and cobs, 

 fuch as the cattle do not eat, be thrown into a hollow place, 

 where they may be wet, alfo the chaff of flaxfeed, the 

 Ihives and hurls of flax and hemp, where they wili rot 

 in a year's time, thefe make a good manure. Here let 

 me remark, without giving offence to my dear countrymen, 

 whofc good I have always ftudied, and whofc intereft I 

 would willingly promote, that with a little more induftry 



and application, and fome eafy and proper contrivances, 

 take the whole country in general, I am pretty certain, 

 that ten times the manure might be made and faved, that 

 is made at prefent, and how much our old lands ftand 

 need of it; every farmer very well knows; and trive me 

 leave farther to affert, that where a man has it in his power, 

 and can employ a hand and team altogether in cutting and 

 bringing together as many of the above materials, as can 

 conveniently be had, at the year's end, he would find him 

 by much the moft profitable employed of any man and 

 team upon his plantation : For I am clearly ot opinion 

 that, ten acres of land well manured, will produce a much 

 greater profit to the owner than forty acres of common 

 old lands as they are now managed; the whole charge of 



manuring, tilling, and of the feed for fowing, together 



with the fencing, reaping, threfhing, &c. being fairly 

 calculated. For the ten acres will produce four good crops 

 fucceffively, one of barley, then one of wheat, the next 

 of oats, and thelaftofrye; and with afprinkling of dung. 

 It may be laid down with red clover: The charge of plough- 

 ing for thefe four crops, amounts to no more than the 

 charge for ploughing the forty acres for one crop, the ex- 

 pence of fencing the latter is much greater : The forty acres 

 in the common way of working, lies fallow for three fum- 

 mers, and generally yields but very little grafs, the fourth 

 fummer it is ploughed again and yields no grafs at all- 

 whereas on the plan propofed, the ten acres in the fall af- 

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