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is growing, they will greatly injure it. In the 

 broadcaft hufbandry this cannot be done; but in 



drilling the horfc-hoe will effect it calily. 



And what adds to the farmer's misfortune is, 

 that the mod pernicious weeds have feHs winged 

 with down, which arc carried by the wind to great 

 diflances; fuch are thirties, fowthiftles, coltsfoot, 

 and fome others. r y 



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If the expence of horfe-hoeing be objected, 

 there are two anfwers which may very properly be 

 made: the firft is, that this expence is much lefc 

 than that of hand-hoeing were is practicable, or of 

 hand-weeding. The fecond is, that it is more than 

 repaid by the quantity of feed faved by drilling; 

 to fay nothing of the extra quantity and goodnefs 

 of the crops, which are generally felf-evident. 



From thefe confiderations, founded on, and juftly 

 drawn from eltablilhed facts, the comparative ad- 

 vantage is fo great in favour of the drill-hufbandry, 

 that it mud be ftrikingly vifible to every unpre- 

 judiced perfon. 



I am, Gentlemen, your's, &c. 



R r, Feb. 16, 1783, H. U 1 



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