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any really assisting management or helping 
hand! Thus, though Fifteen Seams of 
Hay per Acre would he a very large Crop 
to calculate upon from his best Meadow 
Land,—and Ten Hogsheads of Cider per 
Acre a common produce in good Orchards 
in “ Fortunate Years,” besides the under¬ 
growth of Grass,—he gives his Meadows 
nearly Two Hundred Seams of Dung per 
Acre every Three Years, and imagines the 
Sheep, with whom he feeds otf the Grass, 
and perhaps to whom he hauls a few Tur¬ 
nips in the Winter, to leave sufficient 
Manure for the renewal of the Pasture and 
the growth of Apples,—unless, indeed, he 
wants a Crop of Potatoes, and has no 
better place than his Orchards to grow 
them,—in which case, he puts no more 
Dung for them than he would in any Field, 
and calls it dressing his Orchards! In his 
preparation, too, for Potatoes, he ploughs, 
instead of digging with a skilful hand, and 
