214 THE PRACTICE OF THE 



* of corn by dint of manure, at a very heavy 

 " expence, comes not within my idea of 

 " improvement ; and in this the moft va- 

 " luable part of improvement confifts, at 

 f* leaft fo far as arable lands are the fubjecl: 

 " thereof." 



The author's method is undoubtedly right, 

 of taking but one exhauiting crop from burn- 

 beat land ; but, though he is a favourer of 

 the New Hufbandry, he does not introduce 

 it here, though very proper to do fo ; his 

 practice feems to have been more in hoeing 

 fingle crops of beans, peafe, turnips, &c. than 

 in cultivating wheat in fucceffive crops by 

 horfe-hoeing, which, in the ftrict fenfe, is 

 properly the New Hufbandry, and, in the 

 prefent cafe, might have been introduced 

 upon this land for the firft crop after burn- 

 beating,- the land being firft well pulverized ; 

 and, if the crop had been even lefs than fix- 

 teen bufhels, the expence would have been 

 fmall; and, what is moft material, the land 

 \vould not have been impoverifhed by a crop 

 of wheat, but would have been certainly im- 

 proved ; and no occafiori to think of an ame- 

 liorating crop of turnips, &c. to fucceed the 



wheat, : but to continue everv vear to obtain a 



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crop of wheat, which is much more profitable. 

 Another inftance of thfc author's improve- 

 ment without manure, is of a general na- 

 ture, and deferves to be well confidered ; and 

 Jjere likewiib the Drill Huibandry may be of 



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