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as we have taken notice of before, and is di* 

 reeled by the author of this hufbandry ; efpe- 

 cially as neceflary in cultivating land for fuc- 

 ceffive crops of wheat : for thefe crops have 

 not any aififtance from manure, nor is the land 

 recruited of its fertility by any other means 

 than by pulverization and expofure. Land 

 that is rich, and already much impregnated 

 with the vegetable food, will bear a good crop 

 l>y good hoeing, or pulverizing only, without 

 much expofure, for a (ingle crop, efpecially if 

 allb manured ; this feems to have miiVd many 

 who were not well acquainted with the prin- 

 ciples of the New Hufbandry : they generally 

 recommend hbeing and pulverizing the land, 

 and to thefe they attribute the fuccefs of the 

 hoeing huibandry ; but though this will do 

 for one crop, it is evident, from the hoeing 

 culture of wheat, that thefe alone will not do 

 for a fucceffion of crops ; but they will gra- 

 dually decline every year, becaufe the earth 

 is not recruited by pulverizing, unlefs a new 

 furface be alfo ex poled to the air, or atmof- 

 phere. It is this that recruits tht earth of the 

 vegetable food: the pulverizing prepares the 

 earth to receive the new vegetable food, when 

 duly expofed to the air. The fmgle cultivator 

 is a triangular hoe, and refembles one of the 

 triangular hoes of the nidget, only larger and 

 longer; the double cultivator confifls of two 

 lingle cultivators placed fide by fide in a frame: 

 they m:.y be run along in light loofe mould, 



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