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day by his gardener. The fame thing is ob- 

 ferved by Mr. Wynne Baker, who fays, that 

 his horie-hoed cabbages continued upright 

 and in health and vigour in the hotteft wea- 

 ther, which had a contrary effet upon the 

 cabbages in gardens in that neighbourhood. 



This effect of horfe-hoeing is of great im- 

 portance in light, dry foils, caufing the crops 

 raifed upon them to grow vigoroufly in hot 

 feafons, that fcorch and burn them in the 

 common Hufbandry : but the farmer mould 

 carefully obferve, that he will not receive this 

 benefit by hoeing land, that is not firfl brought 

 into fine tilth : for a cloddy, rough foil does 

 not drink-in the dews like one that is fine; 

 and, if moiftened by rain, is foon dried again, 

 on a return .of drought and hot weather ; 

 whereas fine mould is moiftened by the dews 

 as deep as it is made fine, and is dried by the 

 fun but a few inches deep. It is likewife a 

 favourable circumftance to the induftrious 

 hoer, that the dews are commonly moft plen- 

 tiful in the nights when the weather is very 

 dry and hot in the day-time. Hence it ap- 

 pears, that the dry, wafte lands, whereof 

 there are many vaft tra&s in the kingdom, 

 which are now looked upon as unprofitable, 

 and of very little or no value to the owner or 

 tenant, may, by this Hulbandry, be brought 

 to bear profitable crops ; and, if any of them 

 are fo poor, that they will not yield profitable 

 crops of wheat without fome manure, a very 



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