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With refpectto wheat, if the land be good, the 

 mere article ofleflening the quantity of feed, fa 

 profufely thrown away in the broadcaft method, 

 will increafe the crop. But would not this effect 

 arife from fimply fowing a lefs quantity, as it is 

 much cheaper than fctting by hand ? Much more, 

 might I afk, would it not flow from Mr. Ducket's 

 huibandry? That of trenching (very mallow) 

 clover leys, fo as to admit his furrowing plough, 

 and by that means drill as fmall a portion as you 

 plcafe, at nine inches equidiftant. 



Till this experiment is made very accurately, 

 I am only convinced, that the farmers hitherto 

 have ufed too much feed, and that fowing lefs is 

 beneficial. The pradice of fetting by hand does 

 not fpread much here, but in Norfolk it does. 



I am, with great regard, 



Your mod obedient fervant, 



ARTHUR YOUNG. 



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