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the 1 8th of July;— Auguft the 20th and 22d, I 

 drilled four rows of winter vetches in each interval 

 between the turnips, at the rate of lefs than one 

 peck and three quarters of feed to an acre. The 

 turnip crop is very acceptable, and my vetches fuc- 

 ceed beyond my warmeft expectation, are thick 

 enough, and give me the pleafing profpedl and 

 hope, that I fhall not, when my dry meat is gone, 

 want a feafonable fupply of early green fodder, that 

 will laft me till my lucerne comes on. 



Now pleafe to obferve, that though I call in the 

 aid of manure, (which our great mafter Tull did 

 not) had it not been for the horfe-hoeing fyflem, I 

 could not have had two good crops, one of turnips, 

 the other of vetches, fo fpeedily after my wheat ; 

 nor either of them to be compared with thofe I now 

 have. Thofe vetches, &c. I hope you, or fome one 

 of your fociety, will foon fee; for I rather vvifh my 

 crops fhould fpeak for themfelves, than by me. 



I totally agree with the Committee, that nothing 

 renders a clay foil fo free and open, as being laid in 

 high ridges in January and February; in fome de- 

 gree every horfe-hoed field does fo, and though not 

 in fo high a ridge, as in the cafe of a winter fallow, 

 yet the middles of the alleys are lower than the 

 fides ; and laft fpring I found my ground, after 



drilled 



