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is convinced of t\}e trijirh of the principles, will 

 readily vary the appdic^tion of them as circuin- 

 flances may require. 



When land is exhaAjfted, quite out of tilth, and 

 overrun with ^he ftrongeft and moft noxjous weeds, 

 it is abfo^utely neceflaj-y to eradicate them, to clean 

 an4 pulverize the foilj otherwife the feed, what- 

 ever it may be, might as well be thrown oa the 

 Ji^ghway, as fown in land in that condition. It is 

 >i queftion of great importance, how and by what 

 means land mfiy be fertilized and its vigour refto.- 

 red, the weeds difplaced and deftroyed, conliflentjly 

 with the beneficial culture of a profitable crop 

 growing on the fame field at the fame tijne.i It 

 will readily occur to the reader, that this is not 

 poflible to be done in any mode of culture but that 

 of planting in drills, and pulverizing the foil by 

 ploughing and horfe-hoeing the interv^ils during 

 the growth of the crop through the whole fummer. 

 Mr. TutL rightly advifed well-timed ploughing 

 and harrowing, till the land was thoroughly pul- 

 verized and well cleaned of weeds ; for the grain 

 and plants, which were chiefly the fubjects of his 

 culture, would by no means admit of being fown in 

 an exhaufted foil overrun with weeds with the lead 

 profpedt of a crop, though it may be ever fo certain 

 that the growth of the fevcral articles he cultivated 



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