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determined to try the effects of deep ploughing; 

 for this purpofe I provided myfelf with a very (tout 

 plough, and began with a piece of land about 5 acres 

 on Briflington Common, to which my experiments 

 have been moftly confined. The foil a rich loamy 

 fand, the colour that of a hazel-nut when fully ripe: 

 the upper ftratum of a pretty uniform quality, to 

 the depth of from 2\ to 4 feet. In the firft place, 

 I had to contend with the prejudice of the plough- 

 man, who, for what reafon he knew not, very 

 ftrongly objected to deep ploughing; however, I 

 foon brought him to fubmiflion, and not without 

 much labour he performed the bufmefs to my en- 

 tire fatisfacYion: — the general depth was about 

 nine inches. 



During the operation, the ground was vifited by 

 moll of the farmers in the neighbourhood, and the 

 method univerfally exploded. By fome it was faid 

 I fhould not plough for them, though I would do 

 it for nothing; by others, that the land would not 

 recover for feven years; and again, that it would be 

 quite ruined. From all this I was not difcouraged, 

 and after giving the land two other ploughings, 

 which were performed with eafe and pleafure to 

 the ploughman, it was cropped with Lammas wheat, 

 and the produce was eftimated, by fome of thefe 

 very farmers, at 40 bufhels per acre. The next 



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