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of all, and ought to be held in the higheft efti- 

 mation.* 



l^tbly. He ufes the patent plough for general 

 ploughing, and often in the intervals of his drilled 

 crops, but more frequently there lefTer ploughs, 

 nearly on the fame principle, fometimes with, 

 fometimes without a mould-board, according to 

 the ftate of the ground and the crop; — the Kentifh 

 fhim; — fometimes Hewitt's horfe-hoe; — at others 

 a kind of double cultivator or zull, with mould- 

 boards extendible at pleafure; — fmall harrows for 

 the intervals or alleys; — Willy's horfc drill-plough, 

 which he has ufed fifteen or fixteen years, with- 

 out the ex pence of fo many millings to keep it in 

 order. He alfo ufes a fpiky roller to reduce hia 

 heavy clay lands, when perfectly dry only. 



As to books, Mr. A. would recommend Tull's 

 EfTay on the principles of Vegetation and Til- 

 lage, to learn the principles of the New Hufban- 

 dry, which are very rational, and in general well 

 explained by him; though his practice may pro- 

 bably be improveable by Jome change of crops, 



* As to the virtues of Burnet : — Mr. A's cows, in a dry fum- 

 mer when grafs was fcarce in the meadows, were put into an old 

 hiily pafture, where burnet grows naturally, in cohfequence of 

 which the cows produced an amazing increafe of milk. 



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