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for the future every year. They look exceeding well hithcito : the 

 plants are extremely fine, and promife a greater crop next year, than 

 that of the experiments of the foregoing years. 



" Thefe experiments have likewife made a ftrong impreflion on 

 feveral perfons in this country, each of whom judged of the new 

 hufbandry, as his inclination, or profpeil of advantage, diredted. 'Tis 

 true our farmers are more generally inclined to fow their land in 

 equally diftant rows, with the drill-plough, than to lay them out in 

 beds, the proper management of which, fay they, is attended with 

 much more care and trouble. My drill-plough is preferred on ac- 

 count of its fimplicity. It began to be ufed lall year, and numbers of 

 fields near this city (Geneva) have been fowed with it this year. 



•' Several of our peafants have likewife tried the drill-plough, and 

 their example will be of confequence hereafter. Their unwilling- 

 nefs to come into any new pradtice, is well known : but this fecms 

 to get the better of their prejudices; and the profpedl they now 

 have of greater crops than ufual, makes them regret their not having 

 fowed a greater extent of ground this way. 



" We have about an hundred and fifty acres fowed in beds, and 

 near a thoufand fowed in equally diftant rows. Such large experi- 

 ments, and made on different foils, cannot but afibrd new in- 

 ftrudiion : the fadls will be better afcertained, and people will.br 

 more thoroughly convinced that the greater produce of the crops is 

 owing to the new hufbandry, and not to favourable circumflances, 

 to which they are too apt to impute it. Thefe experiments, fay 

 they, have been made on the very bell foils ; it is much eafier te 

 prepare a rood or two of ground, than an extent of feveral acres ; 

 thefe little fpots have been cultivated with vail: care ; it is almofl 



impofTible to beftow the fame attention on large tradls of land. ^. 



Luckily, feveral lovers of agriculture are making large experiments, 

 which already prove that the new hufbandry may eafily be praclifed 

 in any extent of ground whatever. 



CONCLUSION. 



" ANY one may now judge, by the experiments which have been 

 •^ made thefe lafl four years, and by the fuccefs which has at- 

 tended them, how far the principles of the new hufbandry are juilly 

 founded, and how far we are in the right road to give flill farther- 

 demonflrations of their excellence. 



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