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idly. The ftoncs in Mr. Anderdon's lands arc 

 calcarious; and he has an idea (but mud leave 

 it to chymifts and philofophers to decide upon 

 the fact) that their effervefcence, on the change of 

 weather, contributes to the fermentation neceflary 

 to vegetation. 



%dly. Mr. A. has had no experience himfelf om 

 flinty land ; but unlefs the (tones are fo large as 

 to obftrucl. the operation of the plough and horfe- 

 hoe, he thinks fuch lands well adapted to the 

 horfe-hoeing huibandry, the loofe ftones, at leaft, 

 aflifting to keep them in a more conftantly plough- 

 able (late, (which is abfolutely neceflary to fuc- 

 ceed in that mode) and moft probably alfo aflifting 

 vegetation, in the manner fuppofed from the lime- 

 ftone, orotherwife. 



^thly. He drills two rows, a foot afunder, on a 

 ridge five feet wide, of courfe leaving intervals 

 of four feet for horfe-hoeing. The feed is fhed 

 in the rows promifcuoufly, but regularly, by 

 Willy's drill-plough, at the rate of from two pecks 

 to a bufhel per acre; and he is of opinion, that 

 the medium between the two is preferable to ei- 

 ther extreme, if the land be well tilled, and the 

 feed fown in proper feafon, having due time for 

 the plants to tiller. 



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