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Edinburgh Society; to which he adds, that a 

 tenant to Sir John Paterfon, near Edinburgh, 

 being in like manner unable to provide feed 

 for his land in the fpring, kept on ploughing it 

 till autumn, and lowed it with wheat ; and had 

 fb great a crop, that he was encouraged to 

 cominue the lame method of culture upon 

 great part of his farm ; which Succeeded fo 

 well, and his circumftances were thereby fo 

 much improved, that in fome years he could 

 have purchased the farm. Thefe are preg- 

 nant inftances of the great advantage of til- 

 lage, without dung ; and juftify the retorting, 

 upon the author of the Farmer's Kalendar, 

 what he fays of the New Hufbandry, and 

 high encomium of dung beyond tillage, " Were 

 fuch ideas to become general, it is incon- 

 " ceivable how much mifchief they would 

 " occafion : for there cannot be more fa lie 

 " principles, than thofe whereon they are 

 " built." 



The examples here given may be fufficient 

 to (hew, that the New Hulbaiidry isapplicable to 

 many different plants ; and it is no lefs certain, 

 that it is io in different climates. It fucceeds 

 when applied to the vines in France and Italy, 

 it has done fo in fome of the northern colo- 

 nies in America, where they cultivate a great 

 deal of maize or Indian corn, by hand-hoe- 

 ing ; but a perfon there, having a mind to 

 try hoeing fome of it with a plough, though 

 not performed in the beft manner, the fuccefs 



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