NEW HUSBANDRY EXEMPLIFIED. fl 



" land being bound up as hard as iron, not to 



" be touched with a plough ; and fometimes 



" all in a pap, not to be trod upon. Fre- 



" quent avocations of my men and horfes to 



" other bufinefs, indocility of fervants, and 



" averfenefs of nifties to be put out of their 



" old tract, have fometimes occafioned neg- 



*' lefts in catching critical feafons for hone* 



" hoeing ; and confequently my land became 



" foul and out of tillage, which was the reafon 



" of my intermitting my annual crops, in 



** order to clean the land and reftore the tiU 



u lage, which happened about three times 



" fince I began; and in the intermiffion I 



" once gave the field a fummer fallow, 



" ploughing acrofs the lands, to lay them out 



" in a new manner ; at other times, I planted 



" part with peafe, and part with vetches. 



" Part of a field near my houfe has tafted 

 " no dung, or other manure, fince I began, for 

 * experiment's fake ; the other part was fre- 

 ' quently dunged, and the whole field other- 

 ** wife cultivated alike ; but the difterence of 

 " the crops at harveft was fcarce difcernible. 

 ' My fervants, who knew the place, thought 

 " they could perceive the odds; but it would 

 " be very difficult for a ftranger to find it 

 " out. 



" In general my Tu/Iian crops (which are 

 " large and upon various fields) have been 

 " nearly equal to the lown crops of my neigh- 

 44 buurs in the different years. I plant about 



F 4 " three 



