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in very poor lands ; if thofe lands arc badly prc^ 

 pared, and they do not allow the neceffary quantity 

 of manure; it will be with wheat as with all other 

 crops ; it will not grow, becaufc it has not been 

 propel!/ cultivated. 



You know. Sir, that the experiments of Mr. 

 TuLL, DuHAMEL, MouGRBS, and many others, 

 have demonftrated the advantage of fowing much 

 lefs feed than is ufually fown. Perhaps you recoi- 

 led, that this method, any more than the ufe of the 

 feed- bag, is not a new difcovery, but has been proved 

 by experience more than an hundred years. 



In the Philofophical Tranfadlions for 1670, No. 

 60, we find a very full and particular memorial of 

 Mr. Evelyn's ; in which, after the Spanifh Me- 

 moir of M. le Chevalier Lucatello, he gives 

 the defcription of a feed- bag ufed in Spain, called a 

 Jembrador^ which the inventor, after having fully 

 cflablilhed its great utility, by repeated trials, in 

 the prefence of the Emperor, took into Spain, 

 where the government ordered feveral new trials to 

 be made, which were alfb attended with great fuc- 

 cefs. By this means, two-thirds lefs is fown, and 

 they reap more. The care required in the con- 

 ftru6lion of the plough, to which the feed-bag is 



adapted. 



