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wheat on an acre and a quarter, which is nearly 

 one peck and a fifth per Englifh acre. It was 

 drilled the 27th of October, and rolled after drill- 

 ing. The crop was late in its appearance, and 

 very backward in the fpring. 



March 31ft, it was horfe-hoed one furrow from 

 the rows. 



April 8th, it was hand-hoed and weeded in the 

 rows. 



25th, horfe-hoed again, laying a furrow back 

 to the rows. 



May 15 th, hand-hoed the fecond time. 



June 2d, horfe-hoed from the rows. 



June 1 2th, hand-hoed the third time. 



July 14th, horfe-hoed to the rows. 



At this laft hoeing, as many of the ears were 

 beaten down into the intervals by wind and rain, 

 a man went before the horfe-hoe, and turned the 

 ears back into their proper place. 



The crop, when reaped and threfhed, yielded 

 me thirty-iix bufhels on one acre and a quarter, 

 which is twenty-eight buflicls and three pecks per 

 acre; and the produce from one peck and a half 

 ninety-iix for one. 



As 



