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poor crop of wheat, being fmutty and very full oT 

 weeds. The wheat-ftubble was ploughed up in 

 November following, and a good coat of dung 

 fpread over it. In this flate it remained till the 

 middle of laft May, by which time it became full- 

 of couch and other noxious weeds. 



The floven of a tenant then giving up his leafe, I 

 had the furrows turned back, then cut acrofs, well 

 dragged and cleaned with a couch-harrow — an ex- 

 cellent implement for difpatch — a horfe, man and 

 boy, doing in a day as much work as a dozen people 

 with rakes. Next I gave a deep ploughing length- 

 ways, harrowed and couched again; which brought 

 the land in fine tilth, and exceeding clean. I fi- 

 nifhed fowing about the id of June, and harrowed 

 and rolled afterwards. The buck- wheat came up 

 about two inches high, regular and even, when the 

 long drought commencing checked its growth, and 

 caft a fickly yellow hue over the whole, particularly 

 under the hedges, where it lay as flat as if cutoff, 

 a confiderable quantity being burnt almoft to a coal. 

 In this condition it continued languifhing for about 

 fix weeks, when a fine fhower produced an amazing 

 alteration ; it immediately reared its drooping head, 

 and tillered out into branches fix or eight in ge- 

 neral on a (talk. 



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