THE PRACTICE OF THE 



The two great furrows are thrown up firft in 

 a high r.dge, the plough going near the rows 

 pt (Kibble, lo that the two next furrows do 

 flo,t rife lo high, as to make the ftubblc interr 

 fere with the drill plough. Other cultivators 

 have not found this inconvenience upon nar- 

 rower ild^es ; nor, it feems, did Mr. Baker 

 find it till the third crop, and .therefore was 

 pot a iufficient reafon for dilcontinuing this 

 hufb.tndry ; the next objection Appears to be 

 \fae principal realon of it. 



5. " Though it feems to have been the 

 t 6 . ppiivo,n of many writers upon this huk 

 a bandry, that fuch coirfant production of 

 t. crppa without intermifh'on does, not im- 

 U poyerKh, but ou the contrary improves the 

 u ground by the culture be flowed upon it in 

 ^hib hufbaudry ; but I find this not to be the 

 cafe : for certain it is, that the capabil.ty 

 <', of the ground to, feed plants, is every year 

 a lefs, after- it has produced a crop of turnips, 

 t< I am afraid this objection will be found in- 

 if ponteftably true in practice, with five-fee^ 

 a ridges ; ho,w far thofe of fix feet may remove 

 t it, 1 fhall wait until my experience (r^all in- 



" forrp rne/'rr If this argument \vas to be 



Depended upon, there was np occafion to bring 

 any other objection againft the New Hulr 

 bandry t Mr- Baker fpeaks here incautioufly, 

 and oppoles his one unlucceisful experiment 

 tp |(ie continued practice and fuccels of th<? 

 aullipr of t(iis huib^ndry ; and of the other 

 ^ gentlemen. 



