S6 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



Art, II, 



Thg Advantages of Shallonv Ploughing^ hy 

 Mr George Clark *. 



IT is fome years fince I firft learned 

 from gentlemen of obfervaiion, that 

 the farmers in Norfolk, and the neigh- 

 bouring counties, ploughed very {hallow, 

 and, notwith (landing, raifed good crops, 

 and were cfteemed good hufbandmen. 



Some are convinced from what they 

 hear or read ; nothing will make impref- 

 fion upon others but ocular demonftra- 

 tion ; and, for my parr, I am of the 

 laft clafs, an unbeliever, that could not 

 fee the weight of the arguments advari- 

 ced in fupport of the pratflice, rill I had 

 an opportunity of travelling through that 

 part of the kingdom, and obferving the 

 management of the gentlemen and far- 

 mers, which of late has raifed the coun- 



• Read Feb. I76i> 



