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Horfe-hoeing is certainly preferable to clofc 

 drilling or hand-hoeing; but the latter is fupcrior 

 to broadcaft. 



Horfe-hoeing the full depth increafes the crop, 

 by making it tiller or branch more than it other- 

 wife would do; and the advantage is diftinctly 

 obfervable every hoeing, by the colour of the 

 grain. It prepares the ground for the next crop, 

 at the fame time that it increafes the crop grow- 

 ing, which hand-hoeing does not, although it may 

 deltroy the weeds. 



Thus drilled ground is kept in a loofe open 

 ftatc to receive the benefit of the influence of the 

 air and weather, which broadcaft has not; and 

 it is evident, from certain experience, that crops 

 may be drilled many years to good advantage 

 without manure. 



Suppofe the crops only twenty bulhels per acre, 

 what courfe of broadcaft crops will give 5L an 

 acre for the courfe? 



But fuppofe they are dunged the fame as any 

 ground in the mod approved courfe, there is 

 the greateft rcaibn to expect as much as in the 

 above experiment, which is twenty-eight and 



three 



