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A field thus planted with potatoes following a 

 crop of beans, if duly cultivated with the hoe- 

 plough, harrow, and plough with a double mould- 

 board, as above-diredted, would reduce almofl any 

 foil to a perfect: tilth. The intervals might be pre- 

 pared in good time for a crop of wheat, and the 

 feed drilled in, if convenient, before the potatoes 

 were taken up. 



Fallowing land has been generally pradifed to 

 reftore its fertility, efpecially where manure is not 

 to be got in fufficient quantities; and all expe- 

 rience (hews that the pradice is right. But none 

 have or can have an adequate idea of the great 

 benefit of keeping the foil in a thorough pulve- 

 rized (late, except thofe who have paid a clofe 

 attention thereto. 



In a very hot and dry feafon, I have feen cab* 

 bage and other plants which were withering and 

 dying, feemingly beyond a pofllbility of recovery, 

 reftored in a very fiiort time to a vigorous ftate, 

 merely by deep hoeing, and earthing them up well. 

 I will quote one infiance in particular, becaufc it 

 is a very remarkable one: 



The field above-mentioned of fcvcn acres, I ufc 

 for a field of experiments. About three quarters 



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