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beyond any other method of culture ; and at 

 the fame time the crops and alfo the land is 

 highly improved by it ; and therefore it is 

 hoped that, now the value of it is better known 

 than formerly, it will become more general 

 in Britain and Ireland. 



It is indeed faid by fpme, the New Hufban- 

 dry is unneceflary when the farmer has great 

 plenty of dung and other manure at a fmall 

 expence ; and it muft be acknowledged fhat 

 this is a very favourable circumftance for the 

 farmer ; but this does not exclude the hoeing 

 hufbandry, which is found to beagreat benefit 

 to manured land and to the crops. Dung and 

 other manures may be laid upon land too li- 

 berally, as was (hewn in the inftance of the 

 Eflex farmer mentioned above ; and, though 

 it is acknowledged that greater crops are fre- 

 quently obtained this way in the Old Huf- 

 bandry than in the New without manure, 

 this does not prove that the Old is the mpft 

 profitable. In this cafe a feries of crops mould 

 be taken for a confiderable number of years to 

 determine this fairly. With high manuring 

 ten large crops may be obtained in fifteen 

 years; butit.may happen, and frequently does 

 happen, that much manure is an injury to the 

 crop, which might do io much damage to the 

 five intermediate crops as would much reduce 

 the profits of the fifteen crops upon an ave- 

 rage. Very few of thofe who have practifed 

 the New Hufbandry have had land that was 



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