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have made great exertions in the introduétion of many novel practices, and under great diſadvantages; for not- being able to execute, but only to dire, they have had both prejudice and ignorance to encounter.‘Their labour is always pro- cured upon worſe terms, probably by£/. 50 der cent. than can be obtained by the farmer or gardener, who can ſay to his workmen,“ Come, let. us go dig together;” even if the la- bourer be hired to work by the piece upon the uſual terms, it will often be ſlightly performed,
How many good effects, and what ſuperior‘cultivation, has been produced within the ſpace of half a century, by theſe means, in a ſlow and almoſt imperceptible manner!‘The very village in which this account is written*, half a century ago, was not able to ſupply from its own ESOS an inferior number of cattle, with a EES of hay LS winter ſtock,
the LS fton meadows. There is a greater quantity of live ſtock’ at preſent kept, and yet no ſma 11 ſurplus of hay remains to be ſent to the Liver- pool market. It was in the memory of a worthy and experience
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who only died the preſent year, that the firſt load of night-ſoi]
brought from Liverpool towards the north was by his father; who was paid for carting the ſame the price that heretofore had been paid for carting away this nuiſance, and throwing it into the river Merſey.
The good LS upon the land, which experience has
proved dung to have, have cauſed it, at this Pedo to be ſold at an advanced price, and carted to a confiderable diſtance, The varieties of potatoes, their E value to the purchaſer, in compariſon to the price they fetched twenty or thirty years ago, under an advance of land, dung, and
labour, proves ſuperior cultivation, and much greater jo-
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Ds es] Ll. 4- Es< LL, Îne— y y ts+ y 4+ duce of this excellent vegetable, from the ſame quantity of ſoil. The introduction of clover, the v of ſeeds of
4 S eS E ERE EES a AA A grain, both oats and wheat, prove ſome degree-of atten-
* Walton, near Liverpool.
+T Mr. Jokn Harper, late of Bank Hal.
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