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warm a character of the drill-hufbandry\ ins 

 general, for all forts of vegetables of 

 trarifplanting turnips for a crop of buy- 

 ing 300 fows at once to fat their pigs on 

 clover of digging to the centre of the 

 earth in fearch of fertility of manuring 

 land with boiled lupines ; in a word, of 

 an hundred rhodomontade inftructions, fuf- 

 ficient to ruin a Nabob. Here judgment 

 fhould come in play, to reject the impro- 

 bable from that which is rational the chaff 

 from the corn. Without this judgment, 

 what I have ftated as an advantage cer- 

 tainly may prove an evil. But then this 

 is the .mere abufe of a circumftance not in- 

 herent in it. 



I have no doubt but a gentleman with a 

 tolerable fhare of underftanding, and fome 

 practical knowledge of agriculture, may, 

 by the means here recited among others, 

 more than balance all the advantages of 

 ' the farmer, great as they undoubtedly 

 are but, without making life of fuch, I 

 think it is impoffible : he can never fight 

 the farmer with his .own weapons. For 

 this reafon, I fhall, in the enfuing calcu- 

 lations, aim at difplaying the confequences 



both 



