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ſeeds with them; 3d year, wheat, or oats, with ſeeds, to remain until it comes again into a ſucceſſion for tillage. If three crops of corn are taken, oats are ſowed, after tlie wheat, or wheat after the oats, and ſometimes oats or bar- ley, and the land is laid down as above.

For this alteration of the fen ſyſtem, the county is, in a great meaſure, indebted to the judgement and ſagacity of the late Mr. John Wing; and the reader will be ſo good as to fuſpend his opinion of it, for the preſent.

Graſs-ſceds.— The graſs-ſeeds formerly uſed, were the common red clover, with hay ſeeds, or more commonly rye-graſs; but white clover, called here Dutch clover, has been of late years introduced, and is much approved of, not only for its natural durability, but becauſe it is found to bear drowning, which is not the caſe with common red clover.

Sheep and cattle.—Sheep are bred in the cultivated parts of the fens of Huntingdonſhire, and theſe are moſtly of the Lincolnſhire ſort, and not the beſt of their kind. A few cows are kept for the dairy, the produce of which are generally reared; but theſe likewiſe are but ordinary; be- ing a ſort of mixture between the worſt of the ſhort- horned and long-horned kinds. Mares are uſed for all pur- poſes of agriculture; and every farmer breeds from them as many as he can, ſelling the colts off at two years old, and as many of the fillies as can be ſpared, with proper attention to the filling up of his team, as the old ones wear off. Oxen are wholly inapplicable, for they could not walk upon the furface of the fen land without being bogged.

It will be eafily underſtood, that a farm thus managed, is pretty full of live ſtock; and it is a pleaſure to obſerve, that every ſpecies has improved of late years.

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