46 THE PRACTICE OF TtitE 



beyond their expectations, though they est- 

 pedtcd much from the author's own fuccefs^ 

 related in his eflay ? 



A late anonymous writer, the author of the 

 Farmer's Kalendar, has endeavoured to (hew, 

 that the principal or only benefit of tillage* 

 and hoeing, is to deftroy weeds ; and that 

 manures are the farmer's only dependence 

 to enrich and improve his land. 



This he exprefles in the introduction to his 

 work as follows. 



" About fifty years ago, a celebrated Eg- 

 " liftman^ Mr. TV/, made many experiments, 

 " in anew method of culture, the great defign 

 " of which was, to fet afide the ufe of manures. 

 " To this day he has had many followers. 

 " With the gentlemen that purfue his fyllem, 

 " tillage alone is neceflary, the plough is all 

 " in all ; and nothing is to be dunged or 

 .** otherwife drefled, but meadows or paftures* 

 w Were fuch ideas to become general, it is 

 " inconceivable how much mifchief they 

 " would occafion : for there cannot be more 

 " falfe principles, than thole whereon they are 

 " built. Throughout thefe iheets, care is 

 " taken, to keep clear of fuch errors ; the 

 " great importance of manures is duly attended 

 " to, and the farmer well inflruded how to 

 * raife as much as poffibie himfelf. This 

 " point of Hufbandry can never be too much 

 " attended to, nor can any have been more 

 ** negleded, by the generality of writers : 

 5 " indeed 



