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gentlemen of character ab;o.id, who have cbri- 

 firmed its principles upon large tracts of land 

 of various kinds. But it is plain that Mr; 

 Baker fell into an error that others haVe done* 

 by luppoiing that pulverization and ex(x>fur 

 were the fame. Mr. Baker mould ha"ve culti^ 

 vated his wheat with the hoe-plough* whicll 

 anfwers both thefe pUrpofes : but he liibftituted 

 cultivators inftead of the hoe- plough ; ths(e ' 

 were invented by M. De Chatea'vieux, as iife- 

 ful mftruments in lottle particular cafes. They 

 are not ploughs, they haVe neirher coulters not 

 earth-boards * and do not turn the toil and ex- 

 pole a new furfade to the air, or atmofphefe"* 

 as a plough does. M. De Chatc-avieux called 

 the tingle cultivator a mintr, becadfe ,f works 

 wholly under ground, railes the mould a little* 

 which (inks down again where it was before 

 as fo^n a-; the cultivator is part ; but does ^dt 

 turn the mould, nor expole a new furface to 

 the immediate aftion of the air, which is ef- 

 fenti il in this huibandry ; as this is the prin- 

 cipal means whereby the Idnd is recruited of 

 the vegetable rood, or nourifhment, whereof 

 it is partly exhaufted by the growing crop. 

 Breaking or pulverizing the earth makes it 

 lighter and more open, whereby the celeftial 

 influences can more eafily penetrate into it 

 than when it is clofe and hard ; but the foil is 

 not by any other means fo effectually and im- 

 mediately enriched, as by tufning and expofing 

 it to the immediate a&ion of the atmolphcre, 



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