l66 THE PRACTICE OF THE 



" manner, yet it is no lefs true, that this 

 " great fertility was, in a confiderable mea- 

 " lure, owing to the excellent culture be- 

 " flowed on it by tb u e horfe-hoeing method. 

 ** Cquftant tillage, during the four preceding 

 " fummers, had undoubtedly fupplied the 

 " plaqe of manure; and four fucceeding crops, 

 " which were none of them bad, were fo far 

 U from having exbaufted the earth, that there 

 " feemed to Le an increafe of vegetable food. 

 V The foij appeared fo thoroughly divided, 

 *f that, fince the harveft of 1 763, the above 

 <? four acres have been drilled with wheat at 

 *' once ploughing, and promife a good crop, 

 <c the ridges being now where the furrows 

 * were Jaft year: but thofe parts which 

 " were fovvn at random, and in rows, have 

 " been manured at the rate of lixteen loads of 

 ?' liable dung to one acre, in order to recover 

 ' their loft fertility: and it was neceflary to 

 tl fow fome kind of meliorating crop, to 

 *' make this part of equal goodnefs with the 

 " reft of the field. |t has accordingly been 

 " ploughed into five-feet ridges, and drilled 

 <* this April with white peafe, a double row 

 " on each bed, and is intended tp be horfe- 

 " hoed. 



" I cannot hejp obferying here, that were 



*' I to follow M. De Chateauvieux' method 



.*' (although, in moft inftances, I am proud 



<' to folio vv the example of fo able an expe- 



* rimenter), and compute the produce of fe- 



<* veral 



