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of; while the caufe, it muft in candour be acknow- 
ledged, has hitherto, in great meafure, eluded the 
refearches of our moft vigilant and refined philo- 
fophers. ‘* But Jove himfelf (faid an ancient author) 
<< willed the ways of tillage not to be eafy, and firft 
<¢ commanded to cultivate the fields by art; whetting 
. the minds of mortals with care, nor fuffered he 
“¢ his reign to be inattive in heavy floth.”’ It is, 
however, believed, that few plants are of more ge- 
neral growth, or wherever fheep are bred, may be 
more ufefully brought into culture. 
What follows relates to the mode of culture, hi- | 
therto fuccefsfully ufed, for the information of thofe 
who may not yet have confidered the fubjec. 
A feminary, or feed-bed, muft firft be fought; for 
every acre to be planted in the field, a provifion muft 
be made of three perch, rods, or poles, i. ¢. a f{quare 
bed (and in a fenced garden, if convenient) of ten 
yards one way, and nine the other; the more rich 
the better, and at all events clean, and particularly 
devoid of the feeds of weeds. This, fuppofed to 
have been prepared by a winter fallow, mutt, about 
the middle of April, be covered with fome fhort 
manure; and horfe-dung, frefh from the ftable, 
without however the fiftings of barn-chaff, and leav- 
ing the long part on the mixen, will be very proper, 
as its effluvia powerfully countermine the devafta- 
tions of the fly. This muft be immediately covered 
by a thallow furrow, either of the fpade or plough, 
and 
