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" like culture ?'* And, in fact, it is found 

 to have the fame effect upon wheat and other 

 plants, upon beans, peafe, cabbages, turnips, 

 potatoes, carrots, &c. and, if properly ap- 

 plied, would have the fame upon many others, 

 as hops, madder, &c. and upon feverai plants, 

 to great advantage, hitherto wholly appro- 

 priated to garden-culture ; as I may hereafter 

 have an opportunity of mewing. 



It may indeed feem unaccountable to many, 

 who are not well acquainted with this Huf- 

 bandry, that is has not made greater progrefs 

 in Britain ; which has been owing to feverai 

 caufes. It could not be expected that com- 

 mon farmers would come into it, till in- 

 formed of the principles, and convinced of 

 its utility, by the experience of gentlemen 

 fully (hewn them. It was oppoled at firft by 

 fome prejudiced perfons, who had an intereft 

 in fo doing ; and has been much prejudiced 

 by feverai modern writers on Huibandry, who 

 neither underftood it, nor had practifed it with 

 judgement and perfeverance. To (hew how 

 ilrangely it was oppofed may be feen in Mr. 

 Miller's Gardeners Dictionary, under the 

 article Triticum, where he lays, that ct the 

 " Horfe-hoeing Hufbandry, which was prac- 

 < tiled by Mr. Tull, has been almoft univer- 

 ** fally rejected by farmers in every country, 

 " it being fo oppofite to their accuftomed 

 44 practice. And indeed, by the abfurdity of 

 " the author in a few particulars, he has dif- 



" couraged 



