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periority of the hoed crops is very great ; 

 and the comparifon being made on the 

 lame foils, and in the fame places, it 

 amounts to demonflration. 



Thofe gentlemen who are unprejudiced, 

 or who have praclifed agriculture, may 

 perhaps be furprized at my bellowing fo 

 much attention, in proving what is ac- 

 knowledged by the moil fenlible part of 

 mankind; but they are not acquainted, nor 

 polTibly can conceive, the number of Stick- 

 lers in the north, even among gentlemen, 

 for the good old way ; and as to nine-tenths 

 of the farmers they treat the idea of hoeing 

 with contempt. Many butchers and gra- 

 ziers will not buy hoed turneps, and one 

 in particular, famous in the neighbour- 

 hood of Kiplin and Crakcbill, in the North- 

 Riding of Yorkfiire, who purchafes every 

 year fome hundreds of acres, will not allow 

 an equal price for one that is hoed ! 



While fuch very extenfive tracks of coun- 

 try continue in fo great an error, and while 

 even gentlemen countenance it, I do not 

 think any endeavours to effect a change of 

 conduct mould be omitted, or that one's 

 attention is wailed in examining the whole 

 ilate of the affair. 



But it is further requifite to obferve, that 



the great benefit of hoeing is not to the 



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crop alcne, but to all the fucceeding ones 



in the covirfe ; In thi^rcfpecl, what I be- 

 fore 



