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out and cultivated. How this land was laid 

 out and cultivated, we are not told, which 

 fhould not have been omitted in the defcrip- 

 tion of experiments that were to decide the 

 merit of any mode of Hufbandry. -When 

 the experimenter found that the crop declined, 

 he mould have given the land five of fix horfe- 

 hoeings, as the author of this Hufbandry di- 

 rects, which would have improved the land : 

 and. he fhould have beftowed 1 fome manure 

 upon it, as a hand-dreffing in the fpring. But 

 here it will be faid, that the author difclaims 

 the ufe of manure for the horfe-hoed wheat ; 

 which has often been faid by thofe who are 

 prejudiced againft this Hufbandry. But the 

 facl: is otherwife, the author directs fbme ma- 

 nure to beufed for drilled wheat in fuch cafes. 

 As in the preface to his Hufbandry, p. 4. 

 *< There may," fays he, * fr be fuch wet 

 c Clayey land, which the plough cannot pul- 

 verize without help of the ferment of dung. 

 if- And in any fort of land, when it is fuf- 

 ' pe&ed that the earth of the partitions was 

 " not well ordered in the fummer, the beft 

 " remedy is,, to .ftrew a fmall quantity of 

 ** malt-dufr, or other fine manure, upon the 

 ** ; rows, about the month of February ; this 

 V will ftrengthen the plants, and enable them 

 ** to fend their roots into the interval the ear- 

 * e lier in the fpring." This appears to have 

 been wholly omitted*; and likewife to give the 

 land any more than four horfe*hoeings, though 



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