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out a large expence, are much deceived. 

 The common hufbandry, when well-con- 

 du6ted, is much more coftly than generally 

 imagined; how much more lb mufl a 

 fyftem be, that, in many refpe<fl:s, requires 

 a garden-neatnefs, and, at the fame time, 

 a fixed day for feveral operations to be 

 performed at once ? 



If expences in fuch a purfuit come too 

 quick, the confequence is the ruin of the 

 experiments ; for none can be of any 

 authority that are not conduced with the 

 moA prefcribed punduality. Suppofe a 

 gentleman forms a comparative trial 

 between three or four modes of drilling 

 corn, fowing three rows with five feet 

 intervals, with four feet intervals, with 

 three feet intervals ; two rows with five, 

 four, and three feet intervals, and varia- 

 tions in the diftance of the rows from each 

 other. Now, in fuch a trial, if an acre, 

 or half an acre be afTigned to each mode 

 of fowing, the conduct of the experiment 

 will be found to require greater attention 

 and expence than at lirft perceived ; for all 

 the pieces fhould be fowed, and receive all 

 the hoeings, weedings, &c. <Scc. Szc. on 

 I i 4 the 



