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for no more than a (hilling an acre ; and many 

 more, at not more than two millings or half a 

 crown an acre, that might by the New Hufbari- 

 dry, be advanced to double and triple their pre- 

 fent value ; whereof we have a pregnant inftance 

 in the high wolds in Yorkfhire near Scarbo- 

 rough, where the land lets at no more than a 

 fnilling an acre, and though poor, light land, 

 Sir Digby Legard found, by an eight years 

 experience, that profitable crops of barley and 

 wheat were to be obtained from it by the 

 New Hufbandry without manure: for his 

 crops were better than by the Old Husbandry 

 with manure, and he recommends the Hoeing 

 Hufbandry, even for that land which is fo 

 light that only one horfe was fufficient to 

 horfe-hoe it ; and by this, heobferves, it was 

 fo much improved, that his crops, in the laft 

 four years, were almoft double to thofe of the 

 four firft. 



Many are afraid to hoe light dry land in 

 hot dry weather, being fearful that the heat 

 and drought would burn up their crop ; but 

 this is for want of knowing the benefit of 

 deep hoeing, of which the farmer may foon 

 iatisfy himfelf by the following eafy experi- 

 ment, viz. dig a hole in the hard dry ground, 

 in the dried weather, as deep as the plough 

 ought to reach ; beat the earth very fine, and 

 throw it back into the hole; after a few 

 alights dews, he will find this fine earth is 

 )>ecome mpift to the bottom, and the hard 



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