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Further remarks on Mr. Duckets mode of Cultivation Sir

The early attention You have given to my attempt of laying before the Publik through your useful Channel Mr. Duckets system of Agriculture, fully entitles you to expect from Me a compliance in the request you have intimated in a note at the end of that publication, that a particular account should be given of the courses of Crops usually addopted by that original Cultivation, as well as his sentiments on fallows, and his mode of treating a field when full of Couch grass.

Mr. Ducket has no fixed rotation of Crops, he seems to think that every Farmer ought to study in cropping his land, what Grain will pay him best, which is the only rule he follows unless prevented by bad Seasons. All he requires is to get a feeding Crop between those of Grain, and renew his Soil by alternate deep and shallow ploughings. He does not regard cross croping his land; yet would avoid sowing Wheat after Barley, nay thinks Wheat after Wheat less prejudicial; he does not object to Wheat after Oats; but Oats after Oats and Wheat following Barley, he thinks are ever weak Crops, and that a continuation of such successions would at last produce nothing. On the Contrary Barley after Barley does very well, indeed he has known Barley succeed well with alternate deep and shallow ploughing, catchword and /catchword