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and that, if our Crops of Wheat fhould happen to 

 fuffer, by being too ftrong, our Lofs will be lefs 

 than theirs, when that is too ftrong, fince it will coft 

 them Nine times our Expence to make it fo. 



A Second Objection is, That as Hoeing makes 

 poor Land become rich enough to bear good Crops 

 of Wheat for feveral Years fucceflively, the fame mud 

 needs make very good Land become too rich for 

 Wheat. I anfwer, That if poflibly it mould fo hap- 

 pen, there are Two Remedies to be ufed in fuch a 

 Cafe; the one is to plant it with Beans, or fome 

 other Vegetables, which cannot be over- nourished, 

 asTurneps, Carrots, Cabbages, and fuch-like, which 

 are excellent Food for fatting of Cattle ; or elfe they 

 may make ufe of the other infallible Remedy, when 

 that rich Land, by producing Crops every Year in 

 the Hoeing-Hufbandry, is grown too vigorous and 

 refty, they may foon take down its Mettle, by fow- 

 Ing it a few Years in their old Hufbandry, which will 

 fill it again with a new Stock of Weeds, that will 

 fuck it out of Heart, and exhauft more of its Vigour, 

 than the Dung (z), that helps to produce them, can 

 reftore. 



There is a Third Objection, and that is, That the 

 Benefit of fome Ground is loft where the Hoe- plough 

 turns at each End of the Lands : But this cannot be 

 much, if any, Damage ; becaufe about Four Square 



by Attriti n or Contunon ; and with thefe Differences, that Dung, 

 which is the moil common Manure, is apt to increafe Weeds, a 

 Tillage (of which Hoeing is chief) deftroys them, and Manure is 

 fcanty in mod Places, but Tillage may be had every-where. An- 

 other Difference is, the vail Difproportion of the Price of Manure 

 and that of Tillage. 



Note, As we have no way to enrich the Soil, but by Pulvera- 

 tion of Manure, or of Initruments, or of both ; fo Nature has 

 ordainNd, that the Soil (hall be exhauited by nothing, but by the 

 Roots of Plants. 



(?) Dung made of the Straw of fowii Corn generally abounds 

 with the Seed of Weeds, 



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