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You have here, fir, an exact account of the feed 
J have fown, and fhall fow, on 131 acres of arable 
land this year; anda fimilar ftatement, taken from 
feveral farmers, of the proportion of feed they would 
have fown upon the fame number of acres. 
I muft not omit mentioning another remark. ia 
Mr. Wimpey’s obfervations upon my letter, as it 
might otherwife tend to miflead your correfpondents. 
He affirms, that the additional tillage, neceflary for 
the drill fyftem, more than counterbalances the ad- 
vantages to be derived from the faving of feed-corn. 
Mr. Wimpey, I have no doubt, expreffed his real 
fentiments, but he appears to me to have been totally 
ignorant of the new fyftem of hufbandry. With 
Mr. Cooxe’s Scarificators, Cultivators, and Quitch- 
Rake, Ican completely pulverize, and cleanfe from 
weeds, any given quantity of land, ata little more 
than a quarter part of the expence neceflary to make 
an equally-good fallow with the common implements 
of hufbandry. Neither is additional tillage abfo- 
lutely neceffary, as I am forry to fay, many flovenly 
drill-farmers till their Jands lefs than their equally- 
flovenly broad-caft neighbours. At any rate, fuch 
an objection could not be valid, until it were firft 
afcertained what additional tillage might be given 
with advantage. I am fully of opinion, that more 
than double the prefent fcanty portion of tillage now 
given to the lands in England, would amply repay 
the farmers for their extra labour and expence. If 
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