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year. In the broad-caft way, I couli never 

 get an acre of carrots hand-hoed in a clean 

 mafterly manner, through the fummer, 

 under 3 /. Thefe are but few fpecimens, 

 among many, of the vaft expence of really 

 keeping land clc.-m. -I have hand-hoed and 

 hand- weeded fou:.' crops, five times in one 

 year ; and all abfolu'cely neceflary to keep 

 the weeds dov»rn. 



Many writers have been very eager in 

 praife of the new L i^andry; but all have 

 confined their views to linele experiments, 

 and never calculated the number of men 

 the occupier of a farm, entirely cultivated 

 under the drill-plough, muft keep, which is 

 a point of no trivial importance. Another 

 object' is the regularity of the employment 

 of fueh men ; for, if a farm requires a 

 great difproportion between the number 

 employed in fummer and winter, the labour 

 v^lll be much dearer than in another pretty 

 equally balanced. This is an objedion to 

 the drill-culture ; for the hoeing, weeding, 

 and cleaning of drilled crops, require a 

 prodigious deal of labour in the fummer, 

 but nothing proportionably in the winter. 



it is the fame with moft articles of expe- 

 rimental culture ; many men are wanting 



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