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you have given it a fair trial. Mr. TULL, wheti 

 people said of his horse-hoing system, that they 

 had tried it, and found it not to answer, used 

 to reply: " What have they tried? all lies in 

 " the little word IT." 



260. You have really tried it; and very in 

 teresting your account is. It is a complete 

 answer to all those, who talk about loss of 

 ground from four-feet ridges; and especially 

 when we compare your crop with that of Mr. 

 JAMES BYRD, of Flushing ; whose ground was 

 prepared at an early season; who manured 

 richly; who kept his land like a neat garden; 

 and, in short, whose field was one of the most 

 beautiful objects of which one can form an idea ; 

 but, whose ridges were about -two feet and a 

 half apart, instead of four feet, and who had 

 three hundred and fifty bushels to the acre, 

 while you, with all your disadvantages of late 

 ploughing and sods beneath, had at the rate 

 of five hundred bushels. 



261. From so excellent a judge as you are, 

 to hear commendation of my little Treatise, 

 must naturally be very pleasing to me, as it is 

 a proof that I have not enjoyed the protection 

 of America without doing something for it in 

 return. Your example will be followed by 

 thousands ; a new and copious source of human 

 sustenance will be opened to a race of free and 



