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would be pradlifed niorej and every farmer would give all his lands 

 at leaft one plowing extraordinary. 



" What we propofe, is therefore not a novelty capable of giving any 

 hufbandman the leaft diHike to the new hulbandry. We all proceed 

 upon the fome principle, and agree as to its eftedl. All of us fay, 

 tJoe earth ?nuft be well divided and thoroughly loofened : but we differ 

 in the manner of doing it. We propofe a method by which the 

 ground is much better prepared than in the old way. In this con- 

 lifts all the novelty. Whoever rightly conliders it, and compares it 

 with the principles and experiments, will readily receive it : but he 

 that is determined beforehand not to enter into this examination, will 

 never enjoy the benefits of it, but will continue plodding on in the 

 old beaten track j not from reafon, but becaufe others did fo before 

 him. 



" The advantages of the new hulbandry are however (o great, that 

 it would be doing the public an injury, not to endeavour to make 

 them more and more known. The fitteft way to anfwer this end, 

 feems to be, to exhort all hufbandmen to convince themfelves, by 

 ftudying the theoiy of the new huft^andry, weighing the folidity of 

 its principles, and confulting the experiments which have been al- 

 ready made. 



" Every man of common underftanding, cannot but fucceed in the 

 practical part ; and his example being imitated by others, the new 

 hulbandry would foon become the general method. 



EXPERIMENT, No. II. 



N. B. This field is marked ivith the fame number in the °Joiirnah of 



1752 ^^1753. 



For the crop 0/" 1 752, (p. 1 47.) // umsfinved with 1 1 pounds 4 ounces 

 of wheat, which yielded \o^.\ pounds 12 ounces. 



For the crop of 1753, (p- 161.) // was f owed with 34 pounds 14 

 ounces, which produced i ^J $ pounds. 



For the crop of 1754, ii was fowed with 61 pounds 14 ounces, 

 which yielded 1820 pounds. 



*i np HIS field, which was to be fowed for the third time, having 

 ■^ been brought to a good tilth by former plowings, I prepared 

 it immediately after harveft, by giving it a plowing like that of laft 

 year. I found I had done right in. increafmg the quantity of the 

 feed the fecond year : and upon, examining the plants which the 



earth 



