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drilled beans, and turnips, fo mellow, that, not- 

 withftanding I intended to have given it three 

 earths, I found it in as fine order with one as any- 

 ground I ever feeded with Lent corn ; and my oat 

 crop turned out for the feafon accordingly, I am 

 certain I make double the clear profit of my 

 ploughed ground, that I fliould do if I followed the 

 common method of tillage, and courfe of crops 

 of this county. 



It is not to be doubted, if the improvement of 

 our wafte lands (hould take place, but that the 

 horfe-hoeing hufbandry, at the firfi: outfet, will be 

 preferable to any, were it only for the defi:ruclion 

 of furze, fern, and other rubbifh, which will for 

 years be conftantly flatting up again, M'hile the 

 crops are growing. 



I will conclude with one obfervation, that havino- 

 been taught to believe, it is a leading principle in 

 agriculture to make wet ground dry, dry wet, heavy 

 light, and light heavy; I am firongly perfuadcd, 

 that when the light foils have been manured with 

 marl, clay, lime, or oihcr heavy fubfiances, it will 

 be difficult to find the land, or the turnip crop 

 thereon, in drills three feet afunder, that may not 

 be admirably improved by the horfe-hoc, and 

 brought to confiderable perfedion. And the cx- 



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