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" the comparifon lefs favourable to the New 

 " Hufbandry in that than any other years 

 " wherein I have made experiments. For I 

 * would allow every advantage to old cuftoms, 

 " that they can naturally or reafonably claim." 

 And, agreeably to this, he reckons the profit 

 of his horfe-hoed crops as above, not according 

 to thofe crops that he obtained after he had 

 experience in that method of Hufbandry, but 

 his firft crops are alfo included, though much 

 inferior to thole he had afterwards from the 

 fame land : for he committed feveral errors at 

 firft, as he frequently mentions : " My former 

 " experiments, fays he, began in 1763, and 

 " ended in 1765, and they were confined to 

 " the culture of barley. But, I think, it will 

 " fet the advantages of the horfe-hoeing, or 

 * Tullian Hulbandry, in a clearer light, if I 

 " give you the produce of the fame field,' 

 ** cultivated during eight fucceflive years (in- 

 " eluding the three I before gave you an ac- 

 " count of), according to the principles of 

 " the New Hufbandry, without dung, or any 

 " other amelioration but what the plough 

 " alone has obtained. In communicating to 

 " you my firft attempts, I am fenfible, that 

 " my inexperience will appear to be the caufe 

 ' of much lofs. Neverthelefs, my errors may 

 " ferve as leflbns to others ; and, in calcu- 

 '* lating the profit of a certain portion of land, 

 " at a medium of eight years, as I include the 

 " firft and leaft profitable ones,l (hall be fcarcely 

 I " iufpcded 



