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irregular. The foil cannot be broken to give it 

 more nourifhment, nor can even the weeds be de- 

 ftroyed without much inconvenience and injury. 



But in the Drill-Hufbandry, the intervals be- 

 tween the rows, whether double or Tingle, may be 

 horfe-hoed; and thereby nourifhment may re- 

 peatedly be given to the plants, and the weeds 

 almoft totally deftroyed. 



The very fame effects which digging has upon 

 young fhrubs and trees in a garden, will refult 

 from horfe-hoeing in a field, whether the crop be 

 cornorpulfe: for the reafon of the thing is the 

 fame in both cafes, and, being founded in nature 

 and fact, cannot ever fail. In drilling, no more 

 plants are raifed on the foil than it can well fup- 

 port;"and by dividing and breaking the ground, 

 they have the full advantage of all its fertility. 



The plough prepares the land for a crop, but 

 goes no further; for in the broadcaft hufbandry 

 it cannot be ufed ; but the crop receives greater 

 benefit from the tillage of the land by the horfe- 

 hoe, while it is growing, than it could in the 

 preparation. No care in tilling the land previous 

 to fowing can prevent weeds rifing with the crop; 

 and if thefe weeds be not deftroyed while the crop 



is 



