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of wheat every third year, or, at moft, every 

 fecond year; wheat being univerlally by them 

 efteemed to be their principal and moft profit- 

 able crop, to obtain which is the chief intent 

 of fallowing ; and the intermediate crops of 

 beans, peafe, &c. are allowed to be inferior 

 to wheat. But in the New Husbandry, the 

 farmer obtains a crop of wheat every year : 

 or, if he has a mind to change fometimes 

 for any other crop, or is obliged to do fo, as 

 Mr. Craik does, from a peculiarity of foil or 

 climate ; he can do it to as great advantage as 

 the common farmer, or more fb ; hoed crops 

 being generally more profitable than the broad- 

 caft. 



Upon the whole, the reader .may perceive, 

 how groundlefs is the aflertion of the author 

 of the Farmer's Kalendar, that " were fuch 

 " ideas (as thofe of the New Hufoandry) 

 " to become general, it is inconceivable how 

 " much mifchief they would occafion ; and 

 " that there cannot be more falfe principles, 

 " than thofe whereon they are built :" which 

 before any author had prefumed to aflert, he 

 ought to have underftood them, and to have 

 diiproved them by a fair trial ; or acquainted 

 his readers, where they were diiproved by per- 

 lons of character: but this was not in his 

 power to do. Thefe principles are founded 

 upon truth and nature ; they have been proved 

 by the molt accurate experiments, and by ex- 



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