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 The fuperiority of the hoed is fourteen 

 bulhels per acre ; the farmer would, there- 

 fore, by hoeing gain a clear profit of eleven 

 bulhels, beiides laving the expence of a fal- 

 low and a year's rent ; beiides keeping his 

 lands generally in better order without fal- 

 lowing, than his llovenly neighbour with. 



This, it. is true, is only reafoning, but it 

 is reafoning on folid, and indisputable facts, 

 in themfelves fufficiently clear to convince 

 the unprejudiced; but common farmers 

 want gilding even to a fugar- plumb : Is it 

 not aftonifhing, that while facts fpeak fo 

 ftrongly, nine-tenths of the beans in the 

 kingdom remain unhoed : Is it not a dif- 

 grace to this land of agriculture, that fo 

 many counties mould perfift in the llovenly 

 cuftom of depending alone on their flocks 

 of fheep for weeding their beans ! Let no 

 one accufe me of the vanity of thinking I 

 ihall ever, by writing, wean farmers from 

 their prejudices. I do not addrefs myfelf 

 to them; but to thofe from whom all im- 

 provements in agriculture muft have their 

 origin — their landlords : It furely much be- 

 hoves them to exert fome attention on an 

 object fo efTential to the good of hufbandry, 

 and confequently to their own advantage. 



R A P E. 



Rent from cs. to i6x. - - - 31 



Ditto from ioj. to 15/. - - 39 



Ditto from i$s. to 20s. - * 37 

 Average, ----- ^6 



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