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vantageous than having any thing planted or fowed 

 in the intervals, when the land is intended for a 

 fucceeding crop of wheat; as fuch intervals admit 

 of frequent horfe-hoeings, by which the land af- 

 terwards requires ojily being formed into proper 

 ridges for wheat. 



My pea field, of about four acres, was broke 

 up the 28th of November laft; drilled, on one 

 ploughing only, with two bufliels of peafe per acre 

 at the diftance of twenty-feven inches between the 

 rows 5 and was once horfe-hoed on the nth of 

 June : the produce twelve bufhels per acre. The 

 foil was rather wet, fix inches deep, on a fliff ftony 

 day. When ploughed, it was full of cammacks 

 and fome ant-hills, and worked very rough; but 

 by being well ploughed and dragged after the peafe 

 were off, has been brought to fuch a ftate as to ad- 

 mit of having wheat drilled in it. 



All my little horfe-hoeings, amounting in the 

 whole to about thirty-three or thirty-four acres, 

 have been, according to my diredions, well exe- 

 cuted by Wm. Edwards, a boy, and one horfe, 

 which performed four acres a day. The horfe, 

 not being aecuftomed to fuch work, induced me 

 to employ a boy (who walked between the rows 

 leading the horfe) rather than run the rifque of 

 the horfe 's injuring the crops. 



