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" indeed except by one or two (who it muft be 

 " owned have treated it in a very mafterly 

 < manner) they have not thought it worthy 

 " their attention." 



Tn difquifitions on controverted points, 

 thofe efpccially of importance, every writer 

 mould adhere ftriclly to facts, or .fpeak cau* 

 tioufly where he is not certain of them. Mr* 

 Tull publimed his Hufbandry in the year 

 1733, wherein he does not fet afide the ufe of 

 manures, but in particular circumftances, and 

 in the culture of particular plants ; neither 

 does he, or his followers, limit the ufe of 

 dung and other dreffings, to meadows and 

 paftures only. He cultivated chiefly wheat 

 and turnips in the horfe-hoeing way; and he 

 manured his turnips, and recommends that 

 practice to others : but to (hew particularly 

 that this author has mifreprefented his fyflem, 

 I mall recite the account he gives of it in his 

 own words. 



Page 19. " But though dung be, upon 

 " thefe and other accounts, injurious to 

 " the garden [giving the roots, : &c a bad 

 " tafte] yet a confiderable quantity of -it 

 ' is fo ; neceflary to moft cornfields^ that, 

 "without it, little good can be done byithc 

 " Old Huibandry. Duu^ is not injurious t?o 

 " the. fields, being there in lefs proportion* 

 * And fucb plants as cabbages, toxuips, 

 * carrots, and potatoes, when they are d- 

 * figued only for fattening of .cattle, will not 



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