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only few trifling circumftances in which we differ in judg- 

 ment, you will fee how generally confonant our ideas are 

 with each other. 



*' Mr. W. thinks that * all land may be fertilized and 

 improved by frequent ploughings and harrowings, if well 

 timed.' But it appears from experience, that many light 

 and thin foils receive detriment rather than advantage from 

 frequent ploughings; particularly in fummer, when the 

 fun exhales the oleaginous and nutritive particles in great 

 abundance. The experience of Mr. Billingsley (who, 

 without a compliment, is one of the beft farmers in the 

 Weft of England) exactly coincides with my own in 

 this refpe£t. 



" Mr. W. fays, * Turnips, lucern,fainfoin, and clover, 

 are very precarious crops.' All crops, with imprudent 

 management, or in very unkindly feafons, muft be preca- 

 rious; but I do not think the term precarious particularly 

 applicable to thofc above-mentioned, turnips excepted ; 

 and the inftances of a material failure, even of that crop, 

 are very rare in the Eaftern counties. Lucern, unlefs fown 

 in drills, and kept clean from weeds, will never anfwer to 

 the farmer; but when judicioufly managed, nothing is 

 more profitable. Clover feidom fails, unlefs in patches on 

 wet lands, which want under-draining; and it is an ex- 

 cellent preparative for wheat. 



** Mr. W. has given you an excellent method of railing 

 a large quantity of manure. I have for many years adopted 

 a mode nearly fimibr, only fubftituting the fpade inftead 

 of the plough in preparing my border and head-lands for 



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