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his crop, but it fhoukl be repeated three or four 

 times at lead; the earth cannot be kept in too 

 friable a ftate. When the Grop is in early enough, 

 and the weather will permit, (as this year 1781) 

 he has ploughed or horfe-hoed before Chriftmas; 

 then he ploughs again as early as he can in the 

 fpring; a third time when the ear begins to fwell 

 in the ftcm; and a fourth time immediately before 

 the blofTbm is come out, or as foon as it is gone: 

 And thefe four ploughings, or horfe-hoeings/ he 

 thinks abfolutely neceilary to do juftice to that 

 mode of hufbandry, yet is forry to fay, to his lofs, 

 he has feldom fully complied with them. 



7/fr/v. Eleven years, as above; the' lafi: crop 

 was reaped in autumn 1779. 



%thly. Mr. A. finds his ground, with the ma- 

 nure as above-mentioned, greatly improved, and 

 is of opinion, that, after the above mode of crop- 

 ping for eleven years, had he carried no manure 

 on the ground, it would have been rendered more 

 fertile than at the beginning; but he does not 

 think he fhould, in fuch a cafe, have had crops 

 fo profitable as with manure; yet he thinks it 

 abfolutely necefTary to avoid manuring fuper- 

 abundantly for wheat crops, left they mould run 

 to ftraw, and thereby become unprofitable. 



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