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*• I have afTerted it will double the crop, and that 

 afTcrtion ought to be explained. I have made 

 many comparative trials on turnips between this 

 mode and broadcaft fowing, and always found, on 

 mygrotindy the horfe-hocd crops the bed. But here, 

 in denoting the benefits of the horfe-hoe, by its 

 dotibling a crop, I wifh to be underftood, that if, 

 in foils like mine, a crop be drilled, leaving proper 

 intervals for horfe-hoeing, and one part be horfc- 

 hoed, the other not, the horfe-hocd part will double 

 the other in produdt. 



" But, I imagine, the horfe-hoe will not fuddenly 

 be fufficiently tried for the advantages of it to be 

 generally known, unlefs (which is more to be wilhed 

 for, than expedled) repeated comparative trials of 

 horfe-hoed crops with other modes were to be 

 made under the direction of government, or fome 

 publick inftitution, on all kinds of foils, in every 

 county in the kingdom.* By fome fuch meafure 

 alone, the exadt point of divifion between the heavy 

 clay and the light fand, where on one fide the 

 horfe-hoe would be beneficial, and on the other 

 not, may be explored. 



* We are as defirous as Mr. A. can be to fee this done ; but the expence 

 attending it would be too great for the finances of provincial focieties to 

 defray. If government would allot a few hundred pounds to be folely ap- 

 propriated by the different focieties to experiments of this kind, made in 

 their feveral diftrifts, and under their immediate infpeftion, the great 

 queftion " on what lands the drill and horfe-hoeing hufbandry is preferable 

 " to the old brcad-caft ?" might, in the courfe of four or five years, be de- 

 cifively and fatisfa^lorily d«cermined. 



