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It was after this worked with a fmall horfe drag 

 rake, three feet long and eighteen inches broad, 

 with handles to guide it. The third hoeing 

 was executed with a Norfolk plough, had of you ; 

 turning the loofened mould to the beans. I had 

 the fatisfadtion to find my ground work well during 

 the excelfive dry feafon, and on examining other 

 grounds managed in the common way, found my 

 crop far fuperior, which can be proved by farmers 

 of credit and reputation. I cannot as yet afcertain 

 the produce, not having had them threflied, 

 which fhould not be performed till near Chriftmas, 

 it being neceflary to let them remain in flack till 

 about that time, before which they will not be 

 fufficiently hardened. 



In February laft, I took the opportunity of about 

 three days of mild weather, to plough up an old 

 piece of ground about three acres; which, rather 

 than let it lie a fallow, I likewife drilled with horfe- 

 beans as before. On the 28 th of April, it was 

 once horfe and hand-hoed only ; ftom the appear^ 

 ance of that crop, I apprehend I fhali be a lofer by 

 it. But as it is now ploughing up for wheat, the 

 ground appears in a much better flate, than if it 

 had had a compleat fummer fallow. My other bean 

 grounds that were horfe-hocd, were laft year in- 

 tended for wheat, which the feafon did not permit 



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