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hogs, potatoes, and lucern, muft fupport 

 your drilling, as it will not fupport itfelf. 

 But that, faid he, is not the fault of the 

 hufbandry; it is merely the expence of the 

 inftruments with which it is performed. 

 That I muft confider, anfwered I, as the 

 fault of the hufbandry, in ths fame manner 

 as the expences of the common ploughs are 

 totally to be charged as faults of the com- 

 mon hufbandry. We had farther converfa- 

 tion upon this point j but 1 found him en- 



thufiaftically devoted to drilling, and 



talked of trying the fame management of 

 horfe-hoeing for his potatoes and lucern, as 

 for corn, which he had already done in the 

 cafe of cabbages, he faid, with fuccefs. 



I muft here remark, upon M. Roc- 

 quelcu's practice of drilling, what before 

 had ftruck me upon reading M. du Hon- 

 nel's Volumes : the great deficiency is, 

 the undertakers of that mode of hufbandry 

 fixing on an improper object to exceed, 

 they fee a moft miferable huibandry around 

 them, and finding, from their firft compa- 

 nions, that drilling excels it, they think 

 the controverfy at an end; whereas, in my 

 Opinion, it is not begun. The hiflance of 



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