STATISTICAL SURVEY* 



CHAPTER VII. 



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ARABLE LAND. 



SECTION i. 



TILLAGE is the dividing or breaking the ground, 

 by fpade, plough, hoe, or any other inflruments, which 

 divide by their force or action. Land is fitted for the 

 production of vegetables, by dividing the foil ; and the 

 more the particles of the earth are divided, the more 

 the internal pores or furfaces are multiplied : the more 

 furfaces there are formed by divifion, the more the 

 earth is enabled to furnifti food for plants, and confe- 

 quently the more fruitful it is. Tillage and manure 

 both contribute to this end ; they mutually aflift each 

 other ; and it is on a judicious management of both 

 that fucccfs in agriculture depends. That ftrong land 

 requires a greater proportion of one and the other, 

 than land of a lighter texture, muft be allowed ; but a 

 confiderable degree of attention muft be paid, to re- 

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