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reafon to believe, from the progremon being 

 different in the hoed crops, which vary eight 

 bulhels where the unhoed ones vary but two. 

 The confequence of hoeing can no where 

 be more apparent than here ; two acres 

 hoed are better by four bufhels than three 

 unhoed, which difference is very great. 

 The farmer who fows two hundred acres, 

 and hoes them, adjoining a neighbour who 

 has three hundred unhoed, reaps eight hun- 

 dred bufhels more than the latter. Is not 

 this an argument ftrong enough ? But far- 

 ther, his neighbour's land is in fuch a 

 weedy, exhaufted condition, that his three 

 hundred acres are thrown by for a fallow ; 

 this is the cuftom of raoft counties that do 

 not hoe ; beans the kit crop of the courfe. 

 On the contrary, the hoeing farmer fows 

 his two hundred acres with wheat, of which 

 he gets to the full as good a crop as hi$ 

 neighbour : What an amazing difference 

 between them at the end of two years ! 

 And carry the comparifon further, it will 

 foon appear that the difference, in no great 

 number of years, will amount to the value 

 of the fee fimple of the land : fo great a be- 

 nefit refults, in numerous inftances, from 

 fmall expences ; half the four buihels fu- 

 periority, after the balance of two acres to 

 three, will, in moft counties of England, 

 hoe an acre twice, and well too ; three 

 bufhels would anv where do it to perfection. 



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