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ufed ; and is alfo cheap, if the feed-boxes are 

 made of hard wood. A very fliort ftone- 

 roller, plain or fluted, is alfo fometimes very 

 ufeful to be drawn along between the ridges 

 in ftrong land, to break the clods there in 

 very dry weather ; which it will do very ex- 

 peditioufly, reduce them to powder, and make 

 the earth fine, and in order to be turned up 

 to the ridges. Such a roller may be drawn in 

 a frame with fliafts, by which it is drawn by 

 one horfe. 



Though the New Hufbandry promifes many 

 advantages to the judicious pracYifers of it, 

 and to the public, it has not efcaped the cen- 

 fures of the prejudiced; but it has been cen- 

 fured chiefly by thofe who were not prac- 

 tifers, or did not perfectly underftand it. Of 

 thefe I (hall mention only a few late inftances. 



Mr. Harrifon, author of the Farmer's Com- 

 plete Guide, recommends the Old Hulbandry 

 in general, and condemns the New. He has 

 borrowed a great deal from Mr. Young, who 

 recommends it for beans, and gives the fol- 

 lowing example of it. Three half-acres of 

 the fame land were fown with tick-beans, 

 broad-caft, each with one bumel of beans; 

 and one of thefe half- acres was twice hand- 

 hoed. The other half-acre was laid up in 

 five-feet ridges, drilled with three pecks of 

 beans, three rows of feed, at a foot diftance, 

 upon each ridge. Thefe had three hand- 

 hoeings, and were four times horfe* hoed. 



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