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To thoroughly pulverize the foil, and keep it clean 

 from weeds, is a maxim the farmer fhould never 

 lofe fight of 5 it is the true fine qua non of fuccefsful 

 hufbandry. If this be duly performed, and the land 

 planted in proper feafon, fcarcely any foil is fo poor 

 as not to bear a profitable crop, nor any fo rich and 

 fertile as to be attended with profit without it. To 

 manure ground that is out of tilth and full of weeds, 

 is to give ftrength and encouragement to its greateft 

 enemies, who are perpetually counteracting, and at 

 length defeating the planter's utmoft endeavours. 

 But let him continue to plough them in till they 

 are in a great meafure overcome, they will then 

 prove the means of increafing the fertility which 

 otherwife they would have deftroyed. 



I have often fowed wheat in November, very 

 feldom with tolerable fuccefs, often with bad; I 

 have therefore left off altogether fowing fo late in 

 the year ; being convinced, from the experience of 

 fome years, that February is a much better feafon, 

 independent of the benefit accruing from three or 

 four months fallow at that feafon of the year, which 

 indeed I find very great. 



Wheat fowed, I fuppofe, the middle of Novem- 

 ber, feldom or never comes up till the latter end of 



Decembers 



