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It was drilled the 21ft of October 1785, with 

 two rows of wheat upon each ridge, with partitions 

 of 14 inches; two intervals three feet four inches. 

 It was fowed with a peck and a half; was four 

 times horfe-hoed; twice from, and twice to, the 

 rows; and three times hand-hoed in the partitions 

 and rows. 



October 21ft, upon a ridge 74 yards long, and 

 four broad, which is the 16th part of an acre, were 

 tranfplanted ten rows of wheat plants, at nine 

 inches diftance every way, from feed fown in a 

 garden the end of Auguft, and two rows from feed 

 fown in May. 



Nov. 1 2th, another ridge of the fame dimenfions 

 was planted with plants (from feed fown in Auguft) 

 at the fame diftance. At the fame time one ridge 

 was dibbled of the fame dimenfions with wheat, at 

 nine inches, and the wheat dropped in the holes, 

 and from one grain to 1 5 per hole, and two rows 

 of each. 



March 31ft, two ridges of the fame dimenfions 

 (viz. the eighth of an acre) were planted with 

 plants, at the- fame diftance, from feed fown in 

 Auguft. 



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