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That he cultivated wheat without manure, 

 for thirteen years ; that he raifed fucceffive 

 crops of wheat, every year during that time, 

 upon very ordinary land ; that he obtai..cd 

 good crops, of four quarters and upwards, 

 without manure, and without impoverishing 

 his luid ; and that many perfons abroad hud 

 pralifed his method with fuccefs? How will 

 the author excufe his concealing this from the 

 farmer ? It is a matter of great importance in 

 Hufbandry, and merits the particular atten- 

 tion of every cultivator of 1 nd. 



Mr. Tull, the author of the New Huf- 

 band.y, cultivated a part of his eftate near 

 . Huiigerford in Berkmire, and there introduced 

 the method of horfe-hoeing, which he prac- 

 tifed chiefly upon wheat and turnips. His 

 land was in general a light, poor foil, which 

 he defcribes as follows, p. 227, and 263, 



' The bulk of the land belonging to this 

 " farm is, on the ibuth fide, for near a mile 

 *' in length, always called Bitbam Hills, and 

 " are, for the mod part, declining grounds, 

 4 a fort of graci/es c/ivi, being all on a chnlk. 

 " In dry weather the whole liable looks of a 

 .** white colour ; it is full of fmall flints, and 

 finaller chalk (tones. Below theie hills is 

 ' a bottom, where are fome grounds, upon ;i 

 " chalk alfo, but had not then [when his 

 " Effay was publimed] been uf;d in hoeing, 

 u having lain with faint foin thirteen or four- 

 " teen years. On the weft fide, all the land 



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