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fupenor to the common method of York- 

 JJnre : Farmers are flow at imitating 

 new practices, but the continued fuc- 

 cefs which will undoubtedly attend his 

 Lordfhip's improvements, cannot fail of 

 effecting a reformation in time ; the con- 

 fequences of it give one peculiar pleafure 

 to contemplate : For Wentivorth is in the 

 center of an immenfe tract of many coun- 

 ties that never hoed a bean : fo that if the 

 improvement fpreads, here is field enough. 

 Greater crops of beans will be produced, 

 and the benefit to thofe of wheat will be 

 immenfe. 



The introduction of turnip hoeing (ow- 

 ing alfo to the fame noble cultivator) is at 

 prefent more generally apparent in its uti- 

 lity, than from the number of common 

 farmers who have followed the method : It 

 mull undoubtedly become general, for the 

 value of hoed turnips to fell, being double 

 that of the unhoed ones, is a circumftance 

 that muft operate, and powerfully. 



There is fomething both to commend 

 and difapprove in the management of 

 manures ; but their beginning to follow 

 the Marquis's example, in turning over 

 their dunghills, predicts a more perfect 

 conduct. 



Their grafs lands they manage in a 

 very defective hufbandry ', the mere riding 



through 



