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quantity of wheat in the then ensuing sea-' 
son. 
In that instance Sir John^s zeal for the ' 
service of the public wanted the corredlion of 
a competent share of prabfical knowledge: he 
was not aware, that by such measure the sub- 
sistino; covenants between landlord and tenant 
would have been broken, and that by sowing 
land out of the regular routine of cropping, 
and not in proper condition to produce a 
crop, they would not only have diminished - 
the stock of grain then in hand, but that by 
such procedure, the land so sown would 
have been unprodudfive, reduced in its 
powers, rendered more foul, and consequently 
must have remained the longer before it could 
be brought into a state for producing a good 
/crop of wheat. In short, from these, and a 
variety of other circumstances, it appeared 
to pradfical husbandmen, tl at if Sir John's 
plan had been carried into eiTefi, to the ex- 
tent he advised, a p reat dearth, if not a famine, 
must have been the immediate consequence, if 
we could not have procured a very large 
