48 THE PRACTICE OF THE 



" be injured by dung, tillage, and hoeing all 

 '* together ; which will make the crops the 

 greater, and the cattle will like them never 

 " the worfe. 



Common tillage alone is not fufficient 

 ** for many forts of corn, efpecially wheat, 

 " which is the king of grains. Very few 

 " fields can have the conveniency of a fuffi- 

 " cient fupply of dung, to enable them to 

 produce half the wheat thefe will do near 

 * cities where they have plenty of it : the 

 " crop of twenty acres will fcarce make dung 

 fufficient for one acre, in the common way 

 " of laying it on. Under the name of dung, 

 " we may alfo underftand whatever ferments 

 " with the earth, except fire, fuch as green 

 " vegetables covered in the ground, &c. 

 ' Dung without tillage can do very little; 

 " with fome tillage doth fomething; with 

 " much tillage pulverizes the foil, in lefs 

 " time than tillage alone can do : but the 

 tillage alone, with more time, can pul- 

 ** verize as well." 



Page 211. " Though dung is fo neceffary in 

 " the old Vlrgillan raftering, andy2*/ erit Huf- 

 4< bandry ; yet to moft forts of land, ufed in 

 <c the old and new pulverizing Hulbandry, it 

 ' is not neceflary j as it appears by mine, 

 ' and by the experience of all farmers, who, 

 " being emancipated from Virgilian prin- 

 *' ciples, have made proper trials. They find, 

 " as well as I, that dung may be fupplied, 



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