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refufmg to hoe for fear of leflening it; fuch abfurd 

 pradlices arife from a barbarous obftinacy, that 

 nothing but ridicule enforced by an oppofite ex- 

 ample can cure; and that can rife only from gen- 

 tlemen undertaking to give an expeririiental proof; 

 and, on the moft meritorious plan of the Bath 

 Society of Agriculture, amply rewarding the la- 

 borious that will purfuethe returns of indufiry, the 

 ingenious that will try the hazard of experiment, 

 and the ignorant that will fubmit to convidlion. 



I am. Sir, 



Your very obliged fervant, 



Stipd-Hall, Ejfex, CHA. ONLEY, 



June 29, 1784. 



Cultivation^ Expencey and Profit, of One Acre, Arable^ 

 for four Tears. 



Tftan. Expence. Tears. Profa, 



V?- £' I. d. ifi. £. s. J. 

 Sowing, tilth, tec. 040 



Tares 2 bufh. rye I bufli, o 13 o Rye and tare-feed i 10 a 



