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That a very great increase of crops may be 

 obtained by this method, probably a double 

 crop, nay perhaps a triple quantity of what 

 is reaped either by drilling, or by the broad- 

 cast husbandry, o. That a great part of the 

 labour may be performed by infirm men and 

 women, and children who are at present sup- 

 ported by the parish charity. 6. That the 

 expense will not exceed from twenty to thirty 

 shillings per acre, if the work be performed 

 by able-bodied men and women; but thai it 

 will be much lower, if that proportion of the 

 work, which may be done by employing 

 young boys and girls should be allotted to 

 them. 7. That in general he has found the 

 distance of nine inches every way very pro- 

 per for setting out the plants at ; but re- 

 commends them to be tried at other spaces ; 

 such as six, eight, or twelve inches. 8. Thai 

 he conceives an earlier crop may be obtained 

 in this manner than by any other mode <>t 

 cultivation. 9- That a clean crop may also be 

 procured in this way, because if the land be 

 ploughed immediately before the plants are 

 set .out, the corn will spring much quicker 

 from the plants, than the weeds will do 

 from their seeds. 10. That such lands afl 

 are overflowed in winter and spring, and are 



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