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little manure, with good hoeing, will caufe 

 them to yield wheat, or other valuable crops, 

 where none could before be raifed, and can- 

 not be obtained 'but by this Hufbandry. 

 There are fome lands in every county, and in 

 fome a great deal, that are fo remote from 

 great towns, and from the homefteads of 

 farm-houfes, that they cannot be manured ; 

 and where the prime coft, or the carnage 

 only of manure, would amount to more than 

 the value of the crops. In fuch fituations, 

 the New Hufbandry will be of infinite ufe, 

 and more efpecially fo, if theie wade and un- 

 profitable lands were laid into fmall farms. 



Some have objected to the New Hufbandry, 

 that it cannot be brought into general ufe, be- 

 caufe fome lands lie fo irregularly, that they 

 cannot be hbrfe-hoed ; which in fome in- 

 ftances is admitted j but all lands that can 

 be ploughed in the Old Hufbandry, may be 

 improved by cultivators, or hand-hoeing, to 

 more ad vantage than they are fown broad-caft. 

 Another objection, which is of much greater 

 confequence, is, that clayey, wet lands can- 

 not be horfe-hoed at all ; and, if it be true, 

 what a late author hath afferted, that two 

 parts in three of all the arable land in Eng- 

 land confift of fuch ftrong, ftubborn land, 

 the New Hufbandry for wheat is at once ex- 

 cluded from fuch land, and cannot therefore be 

 of general ufe. To this it may be replied, that 

 thefe heavy, clayey, ftiff lands are of difficult 



tillage 



