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view being fully accomplished. My experiments have attracted 

 notice. Much more land is in cultivation ; and several instances 

 of the new husbandry have already been manifested. 



The laudable examples of Messrs. Brooke and Defonntain, in 

 substituting the plough and harrow for the spade and pickaxe, 

 and the exertions of Mr. John Kay and Captain Sampson, deserve 

 particularly to be noticed. Their success may prove even far 

 more convincing to the landholders in general, than the soundest 

 reasoning or the clearest deductions ; although they have been 

 drawn from experiments, conducted with the greatest care and 

 attention ; a mode, unquestionably the very best, and most cer- 

 tain of increasing our knowledge in the agricultural, as well as in 

 other arts. 



Those gentlemen, 'therefore, have well established claims to 

 commendation and to encouragement ; bfing the first who have 

 led the way, and given their attention to the wise and judicious 

 order of the Court of Directors, dated the 7th of March, 1794 ; 

 ' " to render every acre of ground, capable of cultivation, as pro- 

 ductive as the nature of the soil will admit." 



Not doubting that some others will soon imitate these begin- 

 nings, (since they will find it their interest to do so) and that they 

 w ill adopt the plough and harrows, by which they may, without 

 mil/ addition to the manual labour they now possesfi, greatly ex- 

 tend cultivation, it would be superfluous to offer any further 

 arguments with a view of enforcing what has been already stated 

 in my several communications upon this most important subject: 

 I shall, therefore, only recommend to all the landholders, that they 

 •^direct their attention to the many acres of excellent land, at 

 present in a state of nature, lying, in a manner, waste and un- 

 profitable ; that they duly reflect on the deteriorated state of the 

 pastures in seasons of drought, and their former losses in cattle ; 



