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was promoted in the moft beneficial manner by the 

 due ufe of the horfe-hoe, or hoe-plough. 



Wheat, turnips, lucern, and fainfoin, and in- 

 deed every other kind of plant, when well fixed 

 and eftablifhed in the ground, may be greatly pro- 

 moted in their growth by the difcreet ufe of the 

 hoe-plough ; but previous to the ufe of this inftru- 

 ment, they muft have arrived to a certain ftage of 

 their growth, otherwife the hoe-plough would en- 

 tirely difplace and totally deflroy them. It is there- 

 fore abfolutely neceflary, that the land in which 

 thefe articles are to be fowed, fliould at leaft be 

 moderately fertile, and very clean from weeds, 

 which can be effedled only by being thoroughly 

 pulverized previous to its being fowed. 



Turnips, lucern, fainfoin, clover, and many 

 others, are very precarious articles, even when fkili 

 has been ufed, and great pains taken, to infurc a 

 crop. Land is fometimes fowed with turnips 

 three or four times to no purpofe, and many other 

 crops frequently mifcarry through circumflanccs 

 which human fagacity cannot forefee, nor human 

 prudence remedy. The failure of thefe articles is 

 generally imputed to the ravages of the fly, and 

 true it is that they prey upon them by millions; 

 but if my obfervations are juft, the evil does not 



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