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and with spirit, will be sufficient to keep such land 
perfectly clean. A good crop of oats or wheat may 
be grown on the turf, after two or three years grazing, 
and the succeeding turnip fallow being well manured 
with dung, or lime, or both, will keep it in heart; and 
that this method will turn out more profitable to the 
occupier, and more beneficial to society, than one crop 
only, I have no doubt; and the growth of grain is so 
necessary to the support of man and beast, that no sys¬ 
tem can be approved where that is curtailed or les¬ 
sened. 
Mr. Carpenter will excuse me for this difference of 
opinion, as it is from trying different methods, that the 
best is finally ascertained. The system he proposes, is 
doubtless adapted to keeping the land clean, but the 
great object is to render it most productive; and, it 
must be observed, that one acre of a good crop of 
grain, and especially wheat, will afford as much nutri¬ 
ment to man, as two acres of green crops, or as four of 
pasture. 
CONCLUSION. 
