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During this part of our converfation, 

 Madame Rocquelou, who had before fat in a 

 fort of fulky filence, ihaked her head, and 

 faid, " Aye, Sir! if he would flick to his 

 hogs, he would make money enough, and 

 we mould be able to bring up our family 

 decently ;- but he muft be hunting after 

 experiments, and loiing more in one part 

 of the farm than he gains in another !" Her 

 huiband, a little angrily, explained what 

 {he meant, by telling me he was carrying 

 on fome experiments in the drill culture of 

 vegetables, on the principles of M. de 

 Chateauvieux. Upon this I enquired con- 

 cerning them, and found my friend a great 

 advocate for the new huibandry. He allured 

 me it was much more profitable than the 

 old method ; that he had fields, of a very 

 indifferent foil, that yielded him good crops 

 of wheat every year fucceffively, without 

 fallow or dung ; that the method he fol- 

 lowed was a little different from De Cha- 

 teauvieux ; for he made his beds only four 

 feet wide, and on them drilled two rows of 

 wheat ; that he horfe-hoed regularly, ac- 

 cording to that writer's direction, and found 

 the wheat to fucceed as well as could be 



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