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 plough working without lois. The narrow 

 fpaces between them, and along the ends, 

 are ploughed borders, or grafs ones, which- 

 ever is moft agreeable ; but the latter arc 

 cxpenfive, as they muft be kept in conftant 

 mowing by way of walks, to view the 

 experiments. The fpaces on the other fide 

 of the field marked into fquares, are beds, 

 broad-lands, or fketches, as they are called 

 in fome counties, juft a perch wide, with . 

 paths on each fide, as in the other part of 

 the field.. In the ploughing, harrowing, &c. 

 they are worked from end to end at once ; 

 but divided into fquare perches at fowing, 

 according to the trials that are defigncd. 

 The bufinefs of fuch a field might be 

 tranfad:ed without any dangerous expence, 

 and, at the fame time, with fuch accuracy, 

 that the rcgifter of the experiments would 

 be much more authentic, and a better 

 guide to condud: the hufbandry of the 

 adjacent fields, than acres of trials not 

 equally well-condudted. I have, throughout 

 thefe fheets, urged the great importance of 

 applying a fufficient fum of money to the 

 bufinefs of hufbandry in every branch, and 

 none fiands fo much in need of it as that of 

 experiments, the great importance of which, 



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