fideration of gentlemen who are converfant both 

 in the theory and practfce of agriculture. 



It is true, indeed, that many fyftems, which 

 make a good figure in theory, fall to the ground 

 when reduced into practice, and are put to the 

 teft by the auftere hand of experiment. 



I hope, in the prefent inftance, that will not be 

 the cafe. My argument is founded upon ana- 

 logy, upon parity of reafoning. One grain of 

 wheat is capable of producing, in one feafon, one 

 bufhel; [Mr. Miller, indeed, inlinuates, that it 

 might have been greater;] one hundred grains 

 then contain the capability of producing a larger 

 crop than ever was reaped from one acre. 



But it will be objected to me, that Mr. Miller's 

 practice cannot be extended to a large fcale. I 

 allow it; not by the hand, I mean; but I will not 

 give up the harrow and roller, until fome better 

 implements are invented. 



In common, it is not a very material object to 

 fave a proportion of the feed corn ; becaufe pro- 

 bably it can only be done by increafing the la- 

 bour, which may greatly overbalance the value 



of 



