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could fucceed, fo as every year to produce 

 profitable crops ; and no other means ufed to 

 obtain them but hoeing, and once ploughing 

 the land. 



The eftabliflied reputation of this gentle- 

 man, for candour and veracity, leaves no room 

 to doubt the truth of thefe experiments, which 

 were alfo often infpeded by many noblemen 

 and gentlemen. Thefe might have been fuf- 

 ficient to fatisfy the author of the Farmer's 

 Kalendar, that the principles of the New 

 Hufbandry are not falfe, as he aflerts ; and 

 that the general practice of it would not be 

 mifchievous, as he fancies ; but very much 

 the reverfe. It is not, however, neceflary to 

 refer wholly to thefe experiments, for many 

 have been fince made abroad with the fame 

 fuccefs, and publifhed by M. Duhamel and his 

 correfpondents. Alfo that eminent cultivator, 

 Sir Digby Legard, pra&ifed this Hufbandry 

 upon the very poor wolds near Scarborough, 

 where he raifed barley and wheat upon feven 

 acres of land, in the method of drilling and 

 horfe-hoeing for eight years fucceffively, raif- 

 ing crops of barley and wheat every year, 

 without manure, upon fo light a foil, that 

 one horfe was fufficient for the hoeing. Sir 

 Digby, in a letter to the London Society of 

 Arts, relates the particulars of this culture, 

 which he recommends, as fuperior to the 

 Common Hufbandry; and particularly takes 

 notice that his land was improved by it, and 



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