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" by an encreafe of tillage. But I never 

 " have faicl any thing againfl the ufe of dung 

 " in the corn fields, except where it cannot 

 " he procured at nil; or \vhcn the whole 

 " expence of it is likely to exceed the prortt. 

 " It is probable, that in fome places, clung 

 " may be had at a lefs price, than the encreafe 

 * of tillage neceflary to fupply the quantity of 

 " dung required. That dung may be ufeful 

 " when properly applied, I believe was never 

 " denied by any author. 



" The Virgilian Hufbandry [of burning 

 " the land, &c] being fhewn, its oppofite is, 

 " not to pulverize land by fire, nor put trull 

 " in dung and harrows, to fupply the place of 

 " the plough; but, on the contrary, to give 

 " to every lort of land, proper and fufficient 

 " tillage (the pooreft requiring moft), and to 

 " ufe only what dung we have, or can rea- 

 " ionably get, in the propereft manner, is 

 " that Huibandry which I call Antivirgilian, 

 *' of which my horfe-hoeing icheme is a 

 " fpecies." 



He fays likewife, in the preface to his eflay, 

 written fix years after he began the horie- 

 hceing of wheat: "The particular icheme 

 " of railing cot.lhint annuitl crops of wheat, 

 ' without dung or fallow, h as yet only upon 

 " probation : but by the fix crops I have btd 

 " in that manner, I fee nothing again It thc-ir 

 14 being continued. This, it is true, requires 

 *' greater care in the management, than any 



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