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My experimental field, of about feven acres, is 

 now drilled with wheat on three-bout ridges, about 

 four feet and a half wide. It was horfe-hoed in 

 December, and I intend fhall be horfe-hoed again 

 in the fpring and fummer, as the feafons arrive ; in 

 that cafe the mould in the intervals will be in very 

 fine tilth for turnips, with which I intend to fow 

 them. Thefe may be hand-hoed whenever it be- 

 comes necellary, notwithstanding the wheat; and as 

 foon as that is harvefted, the ridges it flood on may 

 be ploughed, and the turnips horfe-hoed, and per- 

 haps repeated before winter. The crop I propofe 

 fhall be fed orf in January and February, time 

 enough to plant the intervals on which they grew 

 with beans the beginning of March; horfehoing the 

 intervals, as the growth of the beans will permit, tu 

 prepare them for potatoes to be planted between the 

 beans the latter end of April or beginning of May. 



If this method lhould be attended with the fuc- 

 cefs I expect, the land may be continually planted 

 with a double crop, that is to fay, with wheat and 

 turnips one year, and with beans and potatoes an- 

 other, in alternate fucceffion. If this courfe of crop- 

 ping fhould be found to exhauft the land, more 

 than the horfe-hoeing could replenifh, which I do 

 not think very probable, a moderate dreffing of 



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