70 THE PRACTICE OF THE 



produced much better crops the laft four years 

 than it did at firft : though in all that time it 

 was neither refled nor manured. 



Another gentleman in Berk/hire % the Rev. 

 Mr r D^ane^ in a letter he wrote fome years 

 fince, fays, s 1 had the pleafure of being ac- 

 " quainted with Mr. 7//, and made him two 

 " vifits at Profperous, and took an experienced 

 ** farmer with me ; where I faw fome excel- 

 c< lent crops, and fome very poor ones, on his 

 " own, and on other people's Jand ; and 

 * was convinced the poor crops were not ow- 

 " ing to his Hufbandry, but to the native po- 

 ** verty of the country ; being a light, poor, 

 c fhallow, chalky foil, fituated near the top 

 " of the Hampfhire-hilh) and very little Jand 

 '* there is proper for wheat; and he advifes 

 * f practitioners, oot to attempt to cultivate 

 *' wheat upoij iuch poor land. 



" In my opinion .Mr. Tull's principles are 

 (t founded in truth, and on the certain laws of 

 " nature. Being convinced of the reafonable- 

 " nefs 'and truth of his principles, I have 

 " pradliled his horfe-hoeing Hufbandry above 

 " twenty years, on the Hime land, with fuc- 

 " ce(iive crops of wheat, with but few inter- 

 '* miffions, and can lee no reafon to queftion 

 " the truth of his principles. 



" My foil is not the beft wheat-land, nor 



" rightly adapted to the Tu/Iian Hufbandry, 



" becaufe we fuffef greatly by the extremes 



** both of wet and dry feafons ; fometimes our 



i " land 



