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Wiaen a few grains have been planted in a gar» 

 den, or €vcn in a fieLd, at fix or nine inches difl 

 tance, the produce has often been twice, or four 

 times as much as what is reaped in common per 

 ?icre in proportion. And yet no one, that I ever 

 read or heard of, has undertaken to give any other 

 reafon for this great difference, than that of the 

 plants ftanding at fuch diftance from each other, 

 and being kept clear of weeds. Undoubtedly, 

 thefe advantages contribute much towards the in- 

 creafed produce : byt there is another caufe which 

 appears to have the grcateft fliare in producing thi$ 

 cifed, and that I have difcovered. 



It has indeed been mentioned by writers often as 

 an advantage -y but no one, that I know of, ever faid 

 it was the chief caufe of a great crop. But if wheat, 

 planted at fuch a diftance as to be kept always clear 

 of weeds, produce o/ify double to what is. reaped in 

 common, (fuppofe forty-eight bufhels, inftead of 

 twenty-four bulhels) on good land, well prepared, 

 that is twelve pounds inftead of fix pounds per acre 

 in value. I wonder no gentleman ever tried this 

 method, and publiflied the <7^^///(?«^/ expence above 

 the common; the additional expence I think would 

 be very little: and only think what additional pro- 

 duce, what a field for national, as well as parti* 

 cular improvement I 



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