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to resfrct that we have received his communications 

 fo late and fo immediately on the eve of this pub- 

 lication, that we have neither time nor room to 

 infert them at full length. 



However, as we conceive his fyftcm may be 

 attended with confidcrable advantages if brought 

 into general pra(fl:ice, we fhall ftatc briefly a few of 

 his leading principles; and mufi; requeft, that 

 fuch of our readers as may make, or may have 

 already made, experiments either in tranfplanting 

 or harrowing of corn after it is fprung up, will be 

 pleafcd to favour us with accounts of the good or 

 bad fuccefs attending them. 



Mr. Bogle fiatcs the following propofitions : — 



17?. That he has known many infl:ances of very 

 great crops having been obtained by harrowing 

 fields of corn after they were fprouted ; and there- 

 fore recommends the pradlice very warmly. 



2(ily. That he has alfo received an authentick 

 account -of one inftance where the fame good 

 eftcds were produced by ploughing the field. 



•3^/}'. On the fyftem of tranfplanting, he flates, 

 that a very great proportion of the feed will be 

 faved, as a farmer may have a nurfery, or fmali 



patch 



