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" Thus have I, with candour, endeavoured 

 " to give a clear and comparative view of the 

 " Old and New Hufbandry. During the 

 " eight years that I have praclifed the latter, 

 <c I have been careful to obierve the peculiar 

 " advantages and d fetfs of each method: 



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* 8 and if, upon the whole, I at laft declare in 

 ** favour of Mr. TulFs fyftem, it is with- 

 ** our prejudice, and merely from conviction. 



" That the old method, with the affiftance 

 " of the more modern improvements by tur- 

 f nips and clover, and by the .alternate ufe 

 ** of the leguminous planrs, vvliich require 

 ** hand-hoeing, is very advantageous, I allow. 

 " Perhaps the farmer, who purfues this me- 

 *' thod in its greateft perfection, judges wifely 

 " in preferring a fyftem he is matter of, and 

 " can confide in, to another whofe principles 

 '* may be juft, but the practice of which is 

 " totally different from his own. But the 

 v farmer, who is ignorant of thefe modern 

 4 improvements, furely ought not to hefitate 

 ** ,to adopt the drill culture, which a few years 

 * v pratice would render habitual, and which 

 " he would find to be much more beneficial. 

 ' For it is certain, that this is lefs expenfive 

 " than th$ pld method ; and, when once 

 ' adopted, caller in the execution.'* 



Sir Digby then proceeds to relate his prac- 

 tice in cultivating wheat according to the New 

 Husbandry, and recommending it without rc- 

 (crvc as much fuperior to the Old. I have 



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