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' ling to horfe-hoe an acre, even including 

 f the repairs of the inftruments. Nor are 

 * more than four hoeings commonly required. 

 M So if we reckon four millings for ploughing 

 ?* the ground once over, or forming frefh 

 < ridges ; four (hillings more for horfe-hoe-r 

 * ing ; two (hillings and fix-pence for hand- 

 < hoeing; two millings for weeding; and 

 " fix-pence for drilling; thirteen millings is 

 ' the whole expence of managing an acre in 

 f the new method. 



" Such therefore being the cafe with 

 *< which this celebrated method is performed, 

 *' fo great the improvement of the land by it, 

 " and fuch the extraordinary effects produced 

 *f by merely {lining the earth ; one would 

 " think every hufbandman (hould be induced 

 ' to give it a fair and candid trial; and as 

 * there needs not the exaggerated encomiums, 

 44 which its partizans have affected to teftow 

 upon it, ori the one hand ; fo, on the other, 

 f k the inveterate prejudices, which prevail in 

 " many againft this iyftem, as they have no 

 44 foundation in 'truth, mud prove fubverfive 

 * of the interefts of agriculture.'* 



Sir Digby's next letter is dated the rft of 

 November 1765. *' The experiments,*' fays 

 he, " that I had the honour to lay before you, 

 " in 1763, in order to determine the mod 

 beneficial method of cultivating barley, were 

 f I fear, not entirely fatisfa&ory ; at lead they 

 {* were not fo to me ; I mud beg leave therefore, 



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