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(the leader of whom was the famous Tull) took 

 their eftates into their own hands, and cultivated 

 them with-r-* fpirit, tafte, and fenfe/ — by regula- 

 ting the courfe of crops according to the nature of 

 the foil — by banifliing wafteful fallows* — by de- 

 ftroying weeds — by ftirring and pulverizing the 

 earth while a crop was growing, and thereby pre- 

 paring it for the immediate reception of a fucceed- 

 ing one — by introducing new plants for the better 

 fupport of man and beaft in winter as well as 

 fuinmer, &c. But, unhappily, thefe capital im- 

 provements remained for a long time within the 

 circle of thofe farms where they originated, or thofe 

 counties where fuch public-fpirited gentlemen had 

 fet the example by their own pra6lice. Thefe 

 modes of cukiyatipn were novel; on this account 

 they were flighted, if not derided, by the generality 

 of the common farmers. The principles on which 

 fuch culture was founded were above their comprcr 

 henfion; it muil theiefore necefiarily be, as they 

 fancied it, too expenfiye for them to run the rifque 

 of praftifing, 



• We cannot fully coincide with Mr. Tull, in the idea that all 

 fallows are ivajleful. We readily grant, that by a judicious fucceflion 

 of crops, and ploughings often repeated, the annual quantity of fallow- 

 ground might be greatly reduced, without impoverifhing the foil ; but 

 we ftill think that /owe fallows are annually neceflary, efpecially where 

 the land is uaturally poor. 



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