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ing out fixteen or eighteen guineas to naake trial of 

 an inftrument, which they are fo fully perfuaded they 

 (hould never make the lead beneficial ufe of. If 

 ever the pradlice of drilling, either cloje or widey be- 

 comes general, it muft be by the example of men 

 in eafy circumftances and fuperior condition, who 

 are not afraid of expending a few pounds with a view 

 to promote the public good, in which their own is 

 conlpicuoufly included. 



Sect. IV. Of Juiting the Crop to the Nature and 

 Condition of the Soil, 



In former times the farmer was governed more 

 by the price a commodity would yield at market, 

 than by the confideration of what the nature and 

 quaHty of his land was beft adapted to produce. 

 But experience, and the introdu6lion of many new 

 articles into field culture, have given him a much 

 larger field to range inj and now a fenfible farmer 

 regulates his pradice by the confideration of what 

 his land is fuited to produce a large and profitable 

 crop of, without too great trouble and expence. 

 For example: Wheat is the great ftaple article, the 

 prime objedt of a farmer's care and attention i yet 

 there is much land that is totally unfit to bear that 

 grain, that is applicable to the growth of many other 

 articles which are attended with great advantage. 

 The fame obfervation will hold good in refped to 



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