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to by Mr. Do (He, of the great advantage to 

 be made in Ireland, from fuccellive hoed crops 

 of wheat, compared with the common courfe 

 of culture there (of a crop of wheat, one of 

 oats, and the third year fallow), his failing of 

 fuccefs w r as very difcou raging to others; al- 

 though the drilled crops he ftates are not 

 more than may be really obtained in the New 

 Hufbandry duly performed. Some, who fa- 

 voured the drill hufbandry, wifhed him fuc- 

 cefs j but others, as he takes notice, hoped 

 otherwife ; and his not fuccceding may have 

 iome effecT: in Britain, but has fo difcouraged 

 mofr. in Ireland, that probably the hoeing cul- 

 ture of wheat will not again be attempted 

 there in a long time. 



Since writing the above, I have feen a 

 treatife on Hufbandry, entitled Rural Improve* 

 menfs, very lately publifhed. The author is 

 a gentleman of practical knowledge, and the 

 work contains many valuable and judicious 

 obfervations : he has alfo pradtifed the hoeing 

 hufbandry, and recommends it. The author 

 fets out with this general propofition, that 

 landed eftates may be improved to doulle 

 their prefent value. 44 This,'* fays he, 4 * it 

 44 feems, has been thought by many an ex- 

 *' travagant notion, without any reafonable 

 44 ground or foundation in the nature and 

 44 reafon of things." 



44 Strange as this opinion may feem to 

 44 many, it is not the mere creature of a 



P " warm 



