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of France where it has been tried, has 

 proved mod highly profitable. This is an 

 object extremely deferving the attention of 

 gentlemen who have been induced, from 

 M. du Honnel's volumes, to practice the 

 drill hu&andry. I cannot venture, without 

 having pradifed either, 19 decide in any 

 fuch point as this; and perfons, like my 

 friend M. Rocquelou, who have much ex- 

 perience to enable them to judge right, 

 muft, I am fenfible, hold the reafoning of 

 an unpractifed one cheap. But, in the re- 

 marks 1 have given on his hufbandry, I 

 confine myfelf ftricHy to his own account ; 

 from which it is evident, that, if he had 

 pradtifcd no other hufbandry than the new, 

 that he rnuft have been ruined long ago ; 

 nor do I at prcient remember, in all the 

 converfations I have had on hufbandry, one 

 inftar.ce of great fuccefs in the drill cul- 

 ture. 



I viewed M. Rocquelou's farm on the 

 morning of the I9th, and found his mea- 

 dows, gained from the bog, had a very 

 good appearance, and formed a mod admi- 

 rable coot raft to the adjoining 'parts not yet 

 improved : his drilled wheat made even a 



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