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thod of cultivating wheat; which, together 

 with anfwers to the objections, which he un- 

 derftood had been made to his Hufbandry, 

 he publiflied at different times, to the year 

 J 739 which was about two years before his 

 death : after which his Hufbandry was very 

 little pra&ifed in England. The farmers did 

 not come into it ; and being alfo diflilted by 

 the fte wards and bailiffs of fome noblemen 

 and gentlemen, who had engaged in it, very 

 few continued to pra&ife it, after Mr. Tull's 

 deceafe. 



But his EfTay, or Method of Hufbandry, 

 publimed in 1733, being tranflated into French, 

 M. du Hamel, a curious gentleman in France, 

 began to try experiments in this Hufbandry ; 

 and he, and feveral of his correfpondents, 

 being much furprized at the effect of horfe- 

 hoeing wheat, they extended that culture to 

 feveral other plants, which likewife fuc- 

 ceded ; and their experiments fully confirm 

 the principles of the New Hufbandry. Mr. 

 Du Hamel collected and publimed thefe expe- 

 riments in French, and Mr. Mills tranflated 

 them into Englifh, which have induced many 

 pcrfons in Britain to try this Huil>andry ; and 

 ibme of them have praclifed it exteniively in 

 the fields, and for many years. As I had op- 

 portunity of knowing fome of thefe, and to 

 be well informed of other?, by corref pond ing 

 with the perfons who made them, I have in- 



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