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continue it to the third or fourth year, they will then be fure of hav- 

 ino- their land in excellent tilth, well loofened and divided, and its 

 pores properly opened and exceedingly multiplied. That this will 

 be the cafe cannot be doubted. Yet fome may perhaps be weary of 

 cultivating their lands for fo long a time, before they attain that per- 

 fedlion of culture, which we have all along declared to be neceffary, 

 in order to have great fuccefs. 



" To prevent the difguft which might arife from fo diflant an ex- 

 pectation, and to encourage the lovers of the new hufbandry, I (liall 

 obferve in the firft place, that there are, in every country, confider- 

 able trails of good land, which will not require fo long a time to 

 bring them into proper tilth. I am, however, fenfible how fervice- 

 able it v/ould be towards haflening the progrefs of the new culture, 

 in lands of an inferior quality, to be able to find out fome fliorter way 

 of breaking and loofening the earth : and accordingly I have tried 

 whether it cannot be done. 



" I have fucceeded therein, fully to my fatisfad:Ion, and can now 

 fay with certainty, that lands may be brought to a fufficiently loofe 

 flate, even the firft year, by plowing them in the manner I (hall 

 explain in the third article, experiments 8, 9, and 10, the crops of 

 which were very good. , ; ^^„ j,^ ,^ „ . r 



" The moft certain, and moft inconteftable principle of the new 

 hufbandry, is that the earth inuji be thoroughly loofened by deep and fre- 

 quent plowrngs and repeated culture. In confequence of this, I exa- 

 mined very carefully whether my lands were more loofened and ren- 

 dered lighter by my manner of performing the operations of the new 

 hufbandry, than they were when cultivated in the common way. 

 All my obfervations convinced me that they were. 



'' The firft glance of the eye ihewed me, that the furface of my 

 lands were fmoother : on founding the plowings, I found them 

 deeper: lefs ftrength was required to plow; two horles, and fome- 

 times only one, or a fingle ox, did with eafe, what would other wife 

 have required at leaft double that number of cattle. A manifeft proof 

 that my lands were in excellent tilth. / 



" If, after having thus examined the lands themfelves, Iconfidered 

 their produ<Sions, I had a frefh proof of their being.brought to that 

 ftate of pulverifation, in which alone plants can thrive well. My . 

 wheat was infinitely ftronger than that in the common wayj and, on 

 examining it minutely, I found that each plant had a greater quantity 

 of roots, ftronger, thicker, and much longer, than other wheat, and 



that 



