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This is an uncommon and very valuable 

 fpecies of improvement, not only in regard to 

 the value of the improvement, which is very 

 great, but with refpect to its exten(ivenefs,as there 

 is not a county only, but fcarce a parifh in the 

 kingdom, but this may be of great ufe to: and 

 it is here inferted at length, not only for that 

 reafon, but alfo becaufe this method may be 

 improved by the hoeing huibandry. 



The author propofes to take a crop of corn, 

 barley, or oats, once in three years, after the 

 land is made clean, well pulverized, and fer- 

 tilized, with the dung of the cattle fed upon 

 it, and there is no doubt but this may be ob- 

 tained; but a better crop may be obtained by 

 drilling the feed in equidiftant rows a foot 

 afunder, and well hand-hoed; fome inftances 

 of this have been taken notice of above, and 

 many more might be produced to prove it 

 much fuperior to fowing broad-caft: for half 

 the feed at lead is laved by drilling, the land 

 is cleaned by the hoeing, and at the fame time 

 is improved. It might indeed have been ex- 

 pected that the author would have taken fome 

 notice of this, as he recommends the drilling 

 and hoeing hufbandry much ; but his practice 

 feems to have been more in other crops thus 

 cultivated than corn. However, it is certain 

 from experience, that this is a much more 

 profitable method than fowing broad-caft ; the 

 clear profit is much greater, after paying the 

 expcnce of once or even twice hand-hoeing. 



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