304 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

ON HEAVY LAND,

1ít, Beans on the ley.

2d. Spring fallow, well manured, and cabbages,*

3d. Oats and artificial graſſes.

‘Then remain as before.

The foregoing courſes of cropping cannot poſſibly injure the land, and by them fallowing is excluded, which(unleſs in particular inſtances, ſuch as great foulneſs, or dearth of manure) I do not think necefſfary.

SI 2 LE the upland corn farms; ere proper buildings and conventiencies for the ſhelter of the cattle in the winter — inviting ſubſtantial and well-informed farm-

ers, of more enlightened countries, to ſettle upon them,

I have before ſtated the advantages of large corn farms, buildings,&c. and ſhall, therefore, only add, that nothing I Pj D]=,

ſo much contributes to tie rogrels of good huſbandry as

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example, One good farmer in a pariſh(particularly if he take no pains to make proſelytes) will in a few years con- vert all the reſt; the ſuperiority of his crops, the advancing

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fertility of his land, the thriving ſtate of his cattle, the abun-

dance of manure, all plead daily in eiBuu of his ſyſtem, and e in the end, produce convidion even in the moſt bigoted mind,

* The cultivation of cabbages on beavuy land cannot be too ſtrongly

recommended. Tt puts the clay land farmer on a level with his nei igh-

bours E ht land, and as a farther encouragement, I can aſ- ſert, from experiments repeatedly made, that ¿zvo tons of cabbages are- equi e to ¿bree of turnips, that hey are leſs ſubject to injury from froſt, and that the expences of cultivation, compared with turnips, do not EXCECA IVE milling: Per acres

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