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nine and even ten pickings of the leaves, whereas in England and 
Germany they rarely exceed three. It is an extremely exhaustive 
crop, the finest bullock pasture land being useless for its cultivation 
after six successive crops, unless artificially manured • indeed many 
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old leases still contain a clause forbidding the cultivation of Woad 
amongst other exhaustive crops ; in fact it was looked on with the 
same suspicion as flax. 
