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** feafons, I can recommend the drill and 

 " horfe-hoeing culture, as founded on reafon 

 " and on truth. I have conftantly attended,with 

 " all the impartiality I am mafter of, to the 

 <e peculiar advantages, inconveniencies, ex- 

 " pences, and benefits, both of the Old and 

 " New Hufbandry, and I cannot avoid giving 

 * my verdicT: in favour of the latter." 



He had before given his opinion, with re- 

 gard to the farmers pra&ifing this hufbandry, in 

 the following judicious manner. *' That the 

 " old method, fays he, with afliflance of the 

 " more modern improvements, by turnips and 

 ** clover, and by the alternate ufe of the le- 

 " guminous plants, which require hand-hoeing, 

 *' is very advantageous, I allow. Perhaps the 

 '* farmer, who purfues this method in its 

 *' greateft perfection, judges wifely, in pre- 

 " ferring a fyftem he is mafter of, and can 

 " confide in, to another, whofe principles may 

 " bejutt, but the practice of which is totally 

 *' different from bis own. But the farmer, 

 " who is ignorant of thefe modern improve- 

 * ments, furely ought not to hefitate to adopt 

 " the drill culture, which a few years prac- 

 " tice would render habitual, and which he 

 " would find to be much more beneficial. For 

 " it is certain, that this is lefs expenfive than 

 ** the old method, and, when once adopted, 

 ' eafier in the execution.'* 



This culture has made hitherto but a flow 



progrefs ; the great farmers cannot adopt it in 



R 3 general, 



