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PREFACE. 



gjA S Mr. Tull's Effay on Borfe-hoeing 

 Uujbandry has been published lb me 

 Years, it may be prelumed that 

 ^if|Jf the World hath by this time 

 formed fome Judgment of his Performance • 

 which renders it the l.efs neceffary for the Edi- 

 tors of this Impreiiion to fay much concerning 

 it. For every Man who has attended to the 

 Subject, and duly confidered the Principles 

 upon which our Author's Method of Culture 

 is founded, is an equal Judge how far his The- 

 ory is agreeable to Nature: Though it is but 

 too true, that few have made fufficient Experi- 

 ments to be fully informed of its Worth. 



How it has happened, that a Method of 

 Culture, which propofes fuch Advantages to 

 thofe who mall duly profecute it, hath been lb 

 Jong neglected in this Country, may be matter 

 of Surprize to fuch as are not acquainted with 

 the Characters of the Men on whom the Prac- 

 tice thereof depends y but to thofe who know 

 them thoroughly it can be none. For it is 

 certain that very few of them can be prevailed 

 on to alter their ufual Methods upon any Con- 

 fideration; though they are convinced that their 

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