THE KITCHEN GARDENER. 'B. j* 



happy is it for this country, that now a 

 method of performing this frequently ne- 

 cefiary operation, is difcovered and divul- 

 ged to the world, than which, perhaps no- 

 thing, could be a more valuable acquifi- 

 tion. 



The reader will probably perceive, that 

 I allude to Mr Elkington's, as explained 

 by Mr Johnfton. He is referred to it. 



Next to this, effectual ploughing, dig- 

 ging, trenching, incorporating, and aera- 

 ting the foil, would feem to ftand forward 

 and demand our particular attention. Let 

 us beftow it. Let us not exhauft one part 

 of the foil, while another remains in a 

 ftate of inactivity, and is, perhaps, at the 

 fame time equally capable of production. 

 But rather let us bring up what probably 

 has never, or at leaft for years paft, been 

 accuftomed to the dividing rutt of the coul- 

 ter, the penetrating thru/I of the fpade, and 

 confequently, the produce of " food for 

 man and beaft;" and which, by being 

 frefh and unexhaufted, may afford a timely 

 relief to that which is the contrary, over- 

 burthened, perhaps, by long and fucceffive 



production. 



But 



