^G ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



brought to the furface will foon be en- 

 riched by dung and by the influence of 

 the fun and froft. The ftaple being thus 

 enriched throughout, the turning over the 

 foil will not thereafter have any bad efFedl ; 

 nay, it will have a good efFecl, by em- 

 ploying foil that has in fome meafure 

 been long reded. 



Th Efecond reafon concerns manure ; it 

 being urged, that ten load of dung will 

 go as far in improving an acre, having 

 three inches of ftaple, as twenty will do 

 where the ftaple is fix inches. I acknow- 

 ledge, that it will improve three inches ; 

 but I deny, that the acre will be equally 

 improved with ten as with twenty load, f 

 till it be proved againfl me, that three 

 inches of flaple are as good as fix, which 

 is the very queftion that is in difpute. 



I admit the third and ftxth reafons to 

 be good, as far as they go. A fliallow ^ 

 flaple is frugal, not only in the firfl for- I 

 mation, by faving labour in clearing it 

 of floncs, but alfo by faving labour in 

 ploughing. But it remains to be deter-* 

 mined, whether that circumflance be 



fufEcient 



