NEW HUSBANDRY EXEMPLIFIED. II* 



" upon a lime- (tone quarry, which is very 

 " near the furface ; and is natjrally a ftrong 

 ' and ftubborn foil, with an infinite number 

 " of loofe lime-flones in it. With dry 

 " winds, or a parching fun, the ground 

 " unite?, and is as hard as bricks; moderately 

 ' wet, it is reducible by inftruments ; but 

 * f when thorough wet, it runs together; and 

 " is like brick-clay, when rerniered. This, I 

 '* repeat it, is the natural quality of the 

 " land, and is what the writers would call 

 " a barren, grey, ftiff earth, but is not quite 

 ** a cUy. I have found repeated tillage, when 

 '* the land is in a proper ftate of moifture, 

 " will reduce it, and diveft it of its natural 

 " adhefion. Tillage and manure together 

 44 render it capable of producing any thing ; 

 ' as I believe fuch agents will do upon any 

 " land, provided it can be kept moderately 

 " dry. The fields which 1 had under turnips 

 c and cabbages have been in appearance all 

 * the fummer a fine loam, and reallv bore the 



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** complexion of very fine land, abstracted 

 ** from the rich appearance of the crops." 

 Upon this accurate experiment, we may make 

 the following remarks. 



I. He acknowledges a partiality fhewn to the 

 broad-caft turnips, in bellowing upon diem a 

 double quantity of manure, and an extraordi- 

 nary ploughing, which doubtlefs made that 

 crop confiderably greater than it would have 



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