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tillage in every mode of Hufbandry: but tha 

 they are more fo in the New than the Old, is 

 faid by thofe who are unacquainted with the 

 New Hufbandry ; as will be evident to them 

 who confider both. For, admitting that this* 

 ftrong land in the Old Hufbandry is fummer- 

 fallowed for a wheat crop, whereby it may be 

 brought into tilth, and, being well dunged, is 

 fovvn with wheat in September, the crop hav- 

 ing no further affiftance till harveft, or the 

 beginning of Auguft, fuch ftrong land will in 

 all that time, or above ten months, become 

 very hard and ftale; and a farmer who confi- 

 ders it in this light, as growing ftale, during 

 the growth of every crop, will be ready to 

 conclude, that it will be impracticable, or ex- 

 tremely difficult, to bring the land . into pro- 

 per order, and in .proper time, for drilling and 

 norfe-hoeing. But let thofe confider, that 

 land cultivated in the New Hufbandry is ne- 

 ver fuffered to grow ftale, or out of tilth, as 

 in common fowing. It will not be denied, 

 that the land may be brought in order for the 

 firfl crop of wheat to be town broad-cart ; and 

 that this firft crop may be drilled in Septem- 

 ber, and the land brought into this order 

 upon narrow ridges. When this is done, and 

 the wheat has three or four blades, the earth 

 is not then become fo (tale, but it may be 

 horfe-hoed, turning a furrow from the rows 

 on each iide : in the fp ring the horle-hocing 

 is to be repeated, the plough going in the 



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