TH? FRACTICE OT THE 



I riltntionsd in general, and from memory 

 Only, Sir Digby Regard's practice of the New 

 f-Juibandry ; but this gentleman having grea* 

 experience in Hufban dryland his letters ta the 

 London Society containing fo many valuable ob* 

 fervations, that, though too long to be all here 

 infer ted , an abftracl of feme principal matters 

 in his letters to the Society of Arts, will witht 

 out doubt be acceptable to the reader. 



In his letter dated from Ganton near Mai- 

 ton, Yorkfhire, Jan. 24, 1767, he write$> 

 ** About nine years ago, I was induced to be* 

 " gin experiments by an accidental perufol of 

 " Mr. Tulles book of Horfe-hoeing Huiban~ 

 " dry* The promife of foch immenfe ad- 

 ** vantages accruing from a particular mode 

 4t of tillage, feemkigly neither difficult nor 

 tfc expenfwe, made by an author of efbblifhed 

 * reputation, demanded at leaft a candid trial. 

 ** If the authors prtncipks were true r why 

 w not adopt them? On the contrary, if falfe, 

 4< it was high time to undeceive ourfelves and 

 " other s> 



*' Though my firft experiments did not an- 

 ' fwer in that degree which I had flattered 

 * myfelf they would, they, however, encou- 

 *' raged me to proceed : neither were the 

 ** faults I committed, nor my ill fuecefs, un- 

 w edifying ; iwice I had the good fortune to 

 ** correct the former, and gain experience 

 " from the latter. Having now practiced 

 * the drill culture conftautly during nine 

 f years, a> well the horfe-hoeing part, as 



" that 



