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mould-board plough with four horſes, in order to bury the manure as deep as poſſible; each plant had four feet and a half ſquare 3; about a ſtone of ma- pure was given to each cabbage, or fourteen tons per acre, the manure they bad was very indifferent z; they were ſet with a line, to ſecure their being ſ9 perfeAly exatt as to permit the ploughs to work in every direSion; they were planted in the hr(t week ot April, there was a great loſs of plants fröm uſipg too thick a dibble, which left the roots of the plants hollow; many died in conſequence of it, and the very dry ſcaſon which followed; the ploughs were kept at work in various direCions, during rhe Whole ſummer, which I conceive to have greatly contributed in producing[bv remarkable 3 crop, in a year fo unpropitious to cabbages; had the plants generally ſuc+ cecded, I do not know what weight might not have been obtained.;

The ſtatement of the value of grcen crops, will, I doubt not, appear ſur» priſing to many, which indeed I witneſſed from the obſervations of the per- fons preſent, whilft the experiments were making. All I have to intreat» is, that thole who may be leaſt diſpoſed to agree with me, will only take the trouble, before they rejeet it, of making their own calculations.--The expenſe of this ſyſtem is, undoubtedly, great; ſ0 is the produces The error, moſt farmers fall into, is by endeavouring to do too much; I will venture to aſſert=-a little, wel] done, will make the moſt ample returns. Do little,„but do it well; that is the ſyſtem of profit: better leave half thefarm in a ſtate of nature, and completely cultivate the other half; though the rent be paid for the whole: if I am right, it(tronly points out the folly of having too large farms.--The ſchooſe farm conliſts of 520 acres» with the command of every requiſite means and great advantages of fitua- tion; with four years of moſt adtive exertions, I have not been able to bring it into any thing like cultivation: I have ſtill 170 acres with little done to it, which produce comparatively trifling profit. I ſhall ſtate the laſt year's crop, with the ſuppoled valve, in order to enable thoſe, who have viewed the operations then carrying on, to make their own eſtimates on tbe probability of ſucceſs of the pian: I do pot mean to offer theſe calculations as very corre; but ſufbcieutly ſo, for every purpoſe which can be re»

quired, Acres. L

115. of wheat, at 131 per acre, 2»« 1495 42 of beans, cut Auguſt 13th, at 51, s.... 4% 210 39 of barley, at 10l.,... 309 45 of potatoes,(300 carts,) at 131,. A 585 8 of carrots,(220 catts,) at 5ol. b N Ä* 400 20 of dover, at zol.».“ 3. 402 8 of cabbages, at zol.(having 352 tons,). 240 32 of green crop; at 51,.... 169 6 of lücern, at 151..?.. 902 300 of hay,(2509 carts,) at 21. 10S«.. 250 70 of oats, at 51. DB 2 2 350 2X of paſlture...» iS after graſs, at 11.1098» 4 R 150

24. Fallow- 32 under irrigation L 4675 4%(ince obtained==

519 total acres.

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By this-it will be found, 306 acres have produced 38801: or ncar 131. per acre 3 170 acres 7551. very Jittle more than al. per'acre."5.

The expences attending the ſyſtem here followed, is, undoubtedly, con» fderable'z. but the profits are ſuch, as amply to compenſate them; the elti-