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at the third, a fallow to me feems effentialy in the 

 room of the beans j as no ^^//^-hoeing with us 

 keeps the foil in fufficient purity for any longer 

 term, without a coni'pleat year\ fallowing. On this 

 fallow, in the next year, barley, as more vahiable 

 than oats, fhould be fown, with rye or any other 

 grafs, clover, or trefoil } and then the old rotation, 

 with one ploughing, come forward again. I am fa- 

 tisfied any fallow might be avoided, though I doubt 

 whether with any equivalent advantage, if more 

 ploughings were afforded towards throwing the 

 wheat-ftubble into ridges of four furrows, planting 

 two rows of beans on each ridge, hand-hoeing thefc 

 three times, the hoer always 'walking in the furrow, 

 and drawing his weeds therey and then ploughing 

 thefe furrows up again to the ridge, with a double- 

 breafted plough and one horfe. The imperfedion 

 of our hoeing, expenfive as it is, (for three times 

 hoeing my beans come to 13s. per acre) arifes, in 

 fome degree, from the labourer following his hoe, 

 and at every flep treading in the weed it has re- 

 moved j which muft be the cafe in fiat work, whe- 

 ther, at only one ploughing) the land be thrown into 

 lletches, (beds) as with us, of eight, twelve, or fix- 

 teen furrows. But on the ridge o{ four furrows, 

 this notorious inconvenience is, as I have obferved, 

 avoided; the furrow is the path for the hoer and 



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