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attention of every Englifhman who really feels at- 
tached to his native and highly-favoured foil. Were 
Ito tranfinit all my experiments, by which I have 
formed the above conclufions, they would exhautt 
the patience of your readers; neither do I know of 
any method by which I can give additional validity 
to my affertions, but by offering to rifk fuch a fum © 
of money upon the iffue of a fair fet of experiments 
as will at once fecure the attention of the publick, 
and a ferupulous exactnefs in the parties concerned. 
Though, therefore, I by no means prefume to 
think I have brought the drill fyftem to any thing 
like perfection; and though I deteft betting, yet, 
that this important national queftion, whether the 
ald or new hufbandry be more advantageous, may be 
determined, I here challenge all the advocates of the 
old hufbandry in the kingdom, to bring this long- 
controverted fubject to the teft. Let 24 acres. of 
land be chofen in a rich fandy loam, and let any 
broad-caft farmer till and fow one half in the ufual 
method, with the following courfe of crops, without 
any manure,” viz. beanssbarley, peas, wheat; beans, 
wheat; and I will tilk-the~other half with Mr. 
Cooke’s improved inftruments, and fow the fame 
* This is by no mearis a courfe of husbandry I fhould recom- 
mend for general practice, but I have excluded all green vegetable 
erops, thinking the fyftem which I have chofen the moft trying, 
and therefore beft calculated to afcertain the comparative merits of 
the broad-caft and drill husbandry. 
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