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four was the number given, when only two 

 rows of wheat were drilled on each ridge ; 

 but, when three rows were drilled upon each, 

 it was the author's practice to horfe-hoe his 

 wheat fix times ; and he direfts, that wheat 

 fown in that manner fhould be hoed fo often, 

 or in proportion to its poverty. And there- 

 fore, inftead of concluding with Mr. Harri- 

 fon, p. 406, that this experiment is decifive in 

 favour of the Old Hufbandry ; we may con- 

 clude with certainty, that it was not an expe- 

 riment in the New Hufbandry, but in a me- 

 thod different from it, in feveral eflential cir- 

 cumftances : and therefore proves nothing, but 

 the experimenter's ignorance of the New 

 Hufbandry. 



We have feen, that Mr. Hatrifon acquiefced 

 in the experiment upon beans (though badly 

 performed), though in favour of the New 

 Hufbandry. If the principles upon which the 

 culture of beans fucceeded are right, why 

 fliould not the fame culture fucceed when ap- 

 plied to wheat and o'thcr plants. He makes 

 no reflexion upon this ; but, as others have 

 done, proceeds to condemn the New Huf- 

 bandry, though unacquainted with it, and 

 without any experience of it : for it does not 

 appear that he has made any trial of it him- 

 felf. 



It is obfcrvable in fome modern writers of 

 agriculture, who depretiate the New Hufban- 

 dry, lhat they do not found their arguments 



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