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the Society to take this fubjed into their moft fe- 

 rious confideration: it is, in my humble opinion, 

 an objeft of the utmoft importance. I will not 

 contend with fuch refpedlable authority as that of 

 your Society, whether the good effedl of harrowing 

 and roUing all kinds of corn after it has fprung, be 

 derived from pulverizing the foil, or fubdividing 

 the roots;* it is enough for my purpofe, that the 

 benefits arifing from thefe operations are fully 

 admitted. I will therefore venture to recommend 

 the praftice, as deferving in the highcfl degree 

 every kind of encouragement, and do it on thefe 

 principles : — 



Firji. The operation is iimple, and performed 

 with fuch implements as every farmer has in his 

 poflcflion: of courfe, when, by being excited to 

 make trial, the farmer is fatisfied that it is a fafe 

 and beneficial operation, there will be little diffi- 

 culty in reconciling him to the ufe of it. 



• idly. As the drill and horfe-hoeing hufbandry 

 does not, among common farmers, make fo rapid a 

 progrefs as from its great and fuperior advantages 

 might have been expeded, this method is the befl 

 that can be adopted on crops fovvn broadcaft. 



* Certainly from Khe foi-jtierf becaufe the latter does not take place: 

 few, if any, ol llie roots are divided by harrowing. 



3^/y. When 



