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may in this mode of hufbnndry fow foon after 

 harveft, and horfe-hoc almoft at pleafure; he 

 thinks it mod likely to contribute to its preven- 

 tion, removal, or cure. Change of feed, and 

 brining it, are alfo recommended to prevent it. 



For the blight, as there are feveral forts, arifing 

 for the mod part from poverty, all fuch Mr. A. 

 fuppofes the horfe-hoe might remedy; but as to 

 that fpecies which arifes from plenitude, he fup- 

 pofes this hufbandry muft be, in a degree, liable 

 to, as well as the old; yet he thinks frequent 

 horfe-hoeings, as they retard the immediate growth 

 and nattily running up of the plant, would in the 

 progrefs, if repeated with judgement, ftrengthen 

 the ftem, and abate, if not prevent, that weaken- 

 ing and falling of it, which might otherwife occur 

 from repletion and hafty growth. 



J-Iis corn has been (lightly attacked by the ruft 

 or mildew, but never yet fo powerfully as his 

 neighbours in general at the fame time. 



uthly. Mr. A. thinks the drill plough, judici- 

 oufly ufed, a very great acquifition to agriculture. 

 He is of opinion, from experience, that the ufe 

 of it is the beft method, not only for putting in 

 wheat feed in the horfe-hoeing or Tullian method, 



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