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the land, and ' therefore mould never be 

 omitted, how fine foever the land may be: 

 land finely pulverized is indeed more fufcep- 

 tible of the influences of the atmofphere, 

 than land that is more clofe and comprefled ; 

 but no land, however fine, receives fo much 

 benefit from the atmofphere, as thofe parts of 

 it that are expofed to its immediate action, by 

 being turned and laid open to it, and remain- 

 ing fome competent time to be impregnated 

 by it. By not attending to this circumftance, 

 and fuppofing pulverization to be the fame as 

 expofure, feveral experimenters have been mif- 

 led ; and fome have fancied, that the princi* 

 pies of the New Hufbandry were erroneous; 

 whereof we may have occafion to mew another 

 proof hereafter. 



The firft letter from Sir Digby Legard to 

 the patriotic Society of Arts was in 1763, 

 giving an account of his culture of barley in 

 the New Hufbandry, for which they pre- 

 fented him with a gold medal. He fpeaks at 

 firft with great diffidence of this Hufbandry, 

 but, upon further experience, was clearly of 

 opinion, that it was more profitable than the 

 Old Hufbandry ; and found it was fo, though 

 his drilled crops were not fo large, and were 

 indeed fmaller, for the reafons above affigned, 

 than fome other ingenious cultivators have 

 obtained, as we have fully (hewn. 



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